Oil Prices Hold Firm Near &#36;47
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Oil prices held steady near &#36;47 on Wednesday, a day after striking another record peak as U.S. inflation stayed in check despite scorching energy costs and ahead of weekly data expected to show a drop in crude stocks.
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Oil held steady near &#36;70 a barrel on  Friday as investors grew more optimistic about economic growth  and energy demand in the U.S., the world&#039;s top oil consumer.
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Oil prices held strong on Friday not far  below $55 as traders worried time is running out to top up low  heating oil inventories before winter.
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Oil prices steadied above &#36;48 a barrel on Wednesday as a cold snap in the U.S. Northeast overshadowed an expected build in crude and product inventories.
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Oil prices held steady above &#36;49 on Friday as market unease persisted over supply security in Nigeria, despite peace talks, while the world's richest nations suggested oil resources were scarcer than first thought.
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Oil prices steadied above &#36;45 a barrel on Thursday, attempting to put a floor under a 7.4 percent tumble after a big increase in U.S. heating oil stocks eased worries of a winter supply squeeze.
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Oil prices held firm above $47 a  barrel as worries about a possible cut to OPEC production  curbed fears of a slowdown in second-quarter demand.
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U.S. oil prices held above &#36;46 a barrel on Tuesday on worries of a major supply disruption at a time when producers are pumping at full tilt to meet strong demand.
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World oil prices stood firm on Thursday,  holding onto near-$2 per barrel gains made the previous session  when U.S. inventory data showed commercial crude stocks falling  to their lowest in five months.
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Oil prices held firm around &#36;51 a barrel on Wednesday, hovering near record highs amid the sluggish recovery in U.S. Gulf oil production and an anticipated decline in key winter fuel stocks, dealers said.
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Oil steadied above $62 on Friday as   burgeoning U.S. inventories and slower-than-expected economic   growth balanced possible action from some OPEC producers to   trim output to halt the decline in prices.
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Oil prices held near $45 on Wednesday  after the U.S. government said that crude stocks shrank to a  five-month low last week as refineries ran hard to meet demand.
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Oil prices climbed toward &#36;47 a barrel on Thursday after bullish fuel stocks data in the United States and a series of production hitches across the globe rekindled worries of a major supply disruption.
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Oil prices stayed close to &#36;49 a barrel on Thursday, supported by a forecast for an early cold snap in the United States that could put a strain on a thin supply cushion of winter heating fuel.
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Oil prices held strong Friday after a &#36;2, five percent surge higher as OPEC ministers weighed the timing of a possible further output cut for the spring.
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Oil prices held steady on Friday near  7-week lows on forecasts for colder-than-normal weather in the  U.S. Northeast.
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Oil held firm near $96 a barrel on Thursday after a three-day rally as traders awaited a sixth-weekly decline in U.S. crude inventories and attached a bigger supply-risk premium to Turkish bombing in northern Iraq.