Oil Prices Top $53 a Barrel, Set Record
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Oil futures prices advanced to a new high Monday as a strike began in Africa's largest exporter of crude, exacerbating global supply concerns at a time of strong demand and reduced output in the hurricane-ravaged Gulf of Mexico.    Worries about Russian oil supplies also persist as oil giant Yukos, already struggling to repay a multibillion-dollar back-tax bill, got hit Monday with $1.34 billion in fines...
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Oil prices set new record highs above  $54 a barrel for U.S. crude Tuesday, with global supplies  hounded by outages that are thwarting efforts to build winter  heating oil inventories.
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Oil prices roared up to fresh record  highs on Thursday to end near $55 a barrel, as the U.S.  government reported another fall in heating fuel stocks ahead  of winter.
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Oil prices broke into fresh record  territory above $52 on Thursday on heightened concerns over  tight winter heating fuel supplies.
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Oil prices broke into new record  territory above $52 Thursday on heightened concerns that  supplies of heating fuels will prove inadequate during the  northern hemisphere winter.
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Crude oil rose to a record $53 a barrel on Thursday on supply fears and an unexpected Nigerian strike, weakening stock and bond markets that were already nervous about Friday&#39;s key US September payrolls report.
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Oil prices rallied to a record above $55 a barrel Monday on concerns over a winter fuel supply crunch, and as traders took comments from a top US official to mean high
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Oil prices surged to new record highs  again Tuesday, taking U.S. crude above $54, with global  supplies hounded by outages that are thwarting efforts to build  winter heating fuel inventories.
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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.
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Oil prices held near historic highs  over $53 a barrel on Tuesday, with global supplies hounded by  outages that were thwarting efforts to build U.S. heating oil  inventories ahead of the winter.
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Oil prices rallied to a record above  $55 a barrel Monday on concerns over a winter fuel supply  crunch, and as traders took comments from a top U.S. official  to mean high prices have yet to really dent American demand.
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Oil prices scaled new heights at $53 for  U.S. crude Thursday on concerns over tight winter heating fuel  supplies and an unexpected strike at Nigerian oil terminals.
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Oil prices held near historic highs over &#36;53 a barrel on Tuesday, with global supplies hounded by outages that were thwarting efforts to build U.S. heating oil inventories ahead of the winter.
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Oil prices have surged past a record $55 per a barrel in Asian trade, amid concerns over winter fuel supplies. The price of crude for November delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $55.
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London - Oil prices roared to new record highs yesterday, within a whisker of $51 a barrel, on worries about supplies from the Gulf of Mexico, where almost 30 percent of production remains shut.
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Oil prices hit fresh record highs above  $51 a barrel Wednesday, whipping up worries that high prices  could hit economic growth and weighing on European shares that  were dented by downbeat news from AstraZeneca.
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The price of Brent crude oil struck an historic peak of 86.28 dollars per barrel in trading here on Thursday amid concerns over tight energy supplies.