Oil recoils after breaking $100 a barrel
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Oil fell on Thursday as traders took profits from a record rally that had pushed oil to $100 a barrel two days in a row -- a level that has raised a red flag over global economic growth.
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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 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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Stocks fell on Tuesday as crude oil prices rose to a record above $100 a barrel, erasing an earlier rally on concern that higher energy costs could fan inflation and crimp consumer spending and profits.
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Oil prices fell on Friday as U.S. economic concerns mounted and traders took profits from a rally this week that sent prices to near record levels. U.S. crude settled down 62 cents at $96 a barrel, after trading as high as $97.92. London Brent settled 90 cents lower at $93.88 a barrel.
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Oil prices vaulted to a record $100 a barrel on Wednesday as violence in Nigeria, tight energy stockpiles and a weaker dollar triggered a surge of speculative buying, dealers said.
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Oil companies' shares got a modest boost as crude oil prices touched a record $100 per barrel on Wednesday, but some analysts do not expect that to trigger a rally in energy's biggest names.
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WASHINGTON -- Oil prices fell sharply yesterday after briefly surpassing $54 US a barrel despite nagging concerns that the global supply buffer is too thin to handle a significant disruption of output.
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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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European equity markets retreated during Friday's morning session amid cautious trading as oil prices hit record levels above $90 a barrel and sentiment was also hurt by some disappointing corporate results.
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Oil fell on Friday from its $100 lifetime high as gloomy U.S. jobs data heightened concern of a slowdown in the world's top consumer that could dampen fuel demand.
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NEW YORK -- Oil futures rose to a new record of $100.09 a barrel Thursday after the government reported a larger-than-expected decline in crude oil inventories and an unexpected rise in heating oil supplies.
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Oil prices dipped on Thursday after leaping to a lifetime high of $100 the day before amid a new-year rush of investor demand fuelled by expectations of thinning U.S. stockpiles, the falling U.S. dollar and geopolitical risks.
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Oil fell sharply toward $87 a barrel on Monday as part of a broad-based commodities sell-off on concerns over the health of the U.S. economy and a recovery in the U.S. dollar.
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Top oil-producing countries have blamed the advance of crude prices toward $100 a barrel on financial speculation, geopolitical instability and a shortfall in refining capacity.
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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 fell $2 a barrel on Friday from its $100 lifetime high as gloomy U.S. jobs data heightened concern about a slowdown in the world's top consumer that could dampen fuel demand.