Oil price surge hits Wall Street
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Oil prices have risen for the fifth day in a row amid continuing concerns over the level of US stocks. The surge helped spark a 1.3% fall on Wall Street as investors worried it could lead to a fall in consumer spending and hit corporate profits.
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Oil prices surged to yet new record  highs Tuesday, driving U.S. crude above $54 as global supply  outages thwart efforts to build winter heating fuel  inventories.
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Oil prices surged more than 2 percent  on Wednesday amid worries a possible OPEC output cut this  spring could quickly sap swelling U.S. crude and gasoline  stockpiles.
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Oil prices surged more than two dollars  on Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a fall in heating  oil stocks and cold weather gripped the U.S. Northeast, the  world's biggest heating fuel market.
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NEW YORK - A fresh surge in oil prices set a new trading record and threatened to push past $50 per barrel Monday, unnerving investors and sending stocks lower.    After setting a new all-time record settlement price of $48.88 on Friday, oil continued its march higher on Monday, creating new worries on Wall Street that the slowdown in profits and the economic recovery would extend through the end of the year due to high energy costs...
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British blue chips rose as a spike in the price of oil offset initial enthusiasm over better-than-expected US jobs data.
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Oil prices have surged to two-week highs following news that supplies in the US are tightening. In New York on Thursday, the cost of a barrel of oil rose almost $2 to $44.
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U.S. stocks surged on Wednesday with the Dow back above 10,000 after oil prices fell almost 5 percent, alleviating worry that high energy costs will eat into corporate profits and consumers' wallets.
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Stocks moved higher in a late-session buying surge yesterday, as oil prices stepped back from their highs and investors shrugged off mixed economic data, focusing with renewed optimism on the government&#39;s upcoming jobs report.
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NEW YORK - A sharp drop in oil prices gave Wall Street a modest relief rally Monday, with stocks edging higher on news that oil production had soared during the month of September.    Investors who have sold stocks for months as oil prices climbed reversed course Monday and started buying as the price of crude declined...
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Oil prices surged to a new high above  $47 a barrel on Wednesday on evidence that energy costs are not  substantially slowing the economic growth that fuels oil  demand.
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Oil prices surged nearly 6 percent on  Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a fall in heating oil  stocks in the midst of an arctic cold blast in the Northeast,  the world's largest heating oil market.
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U.S. stocks surged on Wednesday with  the Dow back above 10,000 after oil prices fell almost 5  percent, alleviating worry that high energy costs will eat into  corporate profits and consumers' wallets.
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World oil prices surged almost a dollar  on Friday on worries that the ongoing storm season in the U.S.  Gulf would continue to hamper energy production and imports,  delaying vital pre-winter stock building.
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Oil prices soared to new highs on both sides of the Atlantic today as traders fretted over increasingly short supplies. The cost of crude in New York broke through the
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U.S. stocks jumped on Wednesday as oil  prices, which have held investor enthusiasm for stocks in check  for months, fell sharply after a higher-than-expected crude  build last week.
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The price of New York crude surged to a new record high of 81.80 dollars a barrel on Tuesday ahead of a US interest rate call and as traders fretted over tight energy supplies in the United States.