Oil Holds Firm, Heating Fuel Woes Persist
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Oil prices held steady above $53 a barrel  on Wednesday as worries over a winter supply crunch countered  expectations that high fuel costs would curb growth in  petroleum demand next year.
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High-flying oil prices held firm on  Monday as a blizzard enveloping the U.S. Northeast strained  tight heating oil stocks.
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Oil prices held firm above $41 a barrel  on Tuesday as colder weather in the U.S. brought temperatures  more into line with seasonal norms, spurring heating oil  buying.
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U.S. oil prices steadied near  one-month lows on Tuesday, holding most of their 9 percent  losses since the end of January, on rising stockpile levels and  mild winter weather in the world's biggest consumer.
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Oil prices held firm on Tuesday on concerns about another cold snap in the United States and possible supply disruption in the Middle East and Russia.
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World oil prices held firm on Friday  after pipeline sabotage in northern Iraq kept up supply fears  that have revived a powerful price rally.
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Oil prices held strong on Friday not far below the &#36;55-a-barrel mark as traders worried time is running out to top up low heating oil inventories before winter.
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Oil prices firmed on Friday, cementing  this week's gains spurred by worries a U.S. cold spell could  erode already low winter fuel inventories.
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Oil stayed near $63 a barrel on  Friday, weighed down by bulging natural gas and heating oil  inventories in the United States and the suspension of an oil  workers' strike in Nigeria.
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Oil prices held steady above $48 on  Friday as the U.S. government said it would lend refiners crude  from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), but traders deemed  the loan too small to have a lasting impact.
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Oil prices held firm Friday after leaping almost $2 a day earlier on news US crude stocks sank to a five-month low last week and distillate fuels barely grew ahead of winter.
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Oil held steady on Friday, hovering at about $99 a barrel, after falling the day before as traders took profits from a record rally that saw crude prices spike to over $100 a barrel.
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Oil prices held firm around $55 a  barrel on Wednesday as traders braced for the start of the  northern winter with thin heating oil supplies.
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Oil prices held steady on Thursday as data showing stubbornly low US heating fuel supplies ahead of winter stemmed a rout of nearly $10 since late October.
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Oil prices held firm on Friday after  leaping almost $2 a day earlier on news U.S. crude stocks sank  to a five-month low last week and distillate fuels barely grew  ahead of winter.
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Oil prices steadied on Tuesday, after  sliding 3 percent on Monday as forecasts of continued mild  winter weather in the United States soothed concerns over low  heating oil stocks.
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Oil prices held firm above $55 a  barrel on Wednesday as traders braced for the start of the  northern winter with thin heating oil supplies.