Oil prices threaten global recovery
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The recent jump in world oil prices has cast a cloud over the global economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund says. The Washington-based watchdog said world growth was expected to be the strongest
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The International Monetary Fund warned Wednesday that rising oil prices and interest rates were hampering global economic growth, but the US government said the American economy was stronger than it had estimated earlier.
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Global oil prices fall back from highs of more than $74 a barrel as US stockpiles grow.
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Questions about the sustainability of  global economic growth held many markets hostage Friday as  crude oil prices bumped close to $55 a barrel and investors  awaited a raft of U.S. data.
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The sharp rise in oil prices which recently creeps towards $60 per barrel has put many energy industries and those reliant on energy on the edge for fear of the adverse affects of escalating prices.
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Oil prices hit $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time ever, amid an unshakeable view that global demand for oil and petroleum products will continue to outstrip supplies
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Global oil prices raced to fresh highs on Friday, carrying US crude close to $49.16 a barrel up 46 cents, driven by escalating violence in Iraq and unabated demand growth from China and India.
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The housing crisis and high oil prices may cause a slump, analysts warn.
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World oil prices are continuing to scale record heights, rising on concerns over disruptions to supply from strike-hit producers Nigeria and Norway.
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LONDON, England -- Oil prices have surged to historic levels as a threat of civil war in Nigeria adds to concerns over tight global supplies.
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Oil prices soared on Thursday after the  International Energy Agency warned that faster-than-expected  demand and disappointing world supply growth threatened to keep  the strain on world supplies.
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WASHINGTON - Declaring that high oil prices are a threat to the global economy, the world's industrialized countries urged producers Friday to provide price relief by boosting supplies.    The Group of Seven countries - the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada - also resolved to agree on providing battered Iraq with relief from its massive debt burden while also working on a deal to increase debt relief for the world's poorest countries...
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Oil producing â-pec and non-Opec â -ntries are concerned about the recent heavy fall in the value of dollar, in which international crude oil sales are priced.
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CANNES, France  - Concerns about soaring oil  prices and terrorism have injected fresh caution into global  markets over the last six months, executives and investors said  at a technology conference in Cannes.
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Record oil prices are having a limited impact on the global economy but the risk of economic disruption remains high, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Thursday.
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The world economy will face higher prices than in the past decade as more oil comes from &quot;politically unstable&quot; countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, and production costs rise, the International Energy Agency warned on Tuesday.
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BRUSSELS: Record high oil price pose the biggest threat to the global economic recovery, the European Central Bank said yesterday as it left its key interest rate unchanged at 2 per cent.