Oil Eases as Funds Take Profits
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Oil prices eased on Monday as speculative funds continued to take profits but a tight global supply picture stopped the selling from gaining much momentum.
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LONDON - Oil prices eased further today, as the head of the OPEC cartel said markets were well-supplied with crude and traders continued to take profits from this year&#39;s 40 percent rally.
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Oil eased from its record high on Friday as a hurricane subsided in the Gulf of Mexico and as fresh evidence of credit troubles in the banking sector hit financial markets.
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OIL prices eased, trimming gains from a US$1 rally the previous day following President George Bushâs US election victory. US light crude eased 19 cents to $50.
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Oil futures retreated from record levels Wednesday as investors, rethinking crude's ability to keep climbing past $100, decided to cash in some of their profits from the market's huge advance.
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Oil dropped more than $2 a barrel on Friday, joining a slump across the commodities markets amid concern higher interest rates could slow economic growth and cool demand.
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Oil extended its retreat from record  highs on Thursday, taking two-day losses to six percent after  an unexpectedly large rise in U.S. crude inventories spurred  speculative funds to take profits.
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Oil prices slipped toward $54 a  barrel on Tuesday, breathing easier after a Norwegian strike  threat receded but still anxious over the thin state of global  pre-winter heating oil supplies.
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Oil eased near $60 on Wednesday  following big gains the previous day spurred by disruption of  Alaskan crude exports and ahead of U.S. government data  expected to show declining stocks of heating and transport  fuels.
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U.S. blue chips inched lower on  Tuesday afternoon as investors worried that oil prices, which  jumped to another record, will eat into corporate profits and  dampen consumer spending.
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Oil prices eased back below $59 a barrel as investors focused on U.S. fuel data due later on Wednesday that is expected to show a rise in gasoline stocks in the world's top consumer.
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Oil prices slipped further from  record highs on Wednesday as traders locked in profits after  the market's $10 surge since mid-August.
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Stocks declined on Monday as a drop in oil prices hit shares of major energy companies and investors took profits in large technology companies in the last trading session of the year.
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LONDON SEPTEMBER 6: Oil prices eased on Monday as speculative funds continued to take profits but a tight global supply picture stopped the selling from gaining much momentum.
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Oil prices pulled further back from the brink of $100 a barrel on Thursday after fresh signs of weak U.S. oil demand and a Wall Street slump fuelled profit-taking from a near 40 percent rally in under three months.
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Oil prices fell from two-week highs on  Thursday, as traders took profits from dramatic gains on  Wednesday driven by renewed fears over fuel supplies for the  northern winter.
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LONDON - Oil prices have fallen after forecasts of mild US weather prompted traders to take profits from a rally that has added over 30 per cent to the cost of crude this year.