Oil holds over $52 as rally pauses, frets on outages
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Oil prices took time out on Friday from this week&#39;s succession of record highs, but anxiety over outages in the US Gulf, Nigeria and Norway in the run-up to winter left little hope of relief for consumers.
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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 held steady just below $96 a barrel on Thursday after a three-day rally, as traders awaited a sixth-weekly decline in U.S. crude inventories and attached a bigger supply-risk premium to Turkish bombing in northern Iraq.
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Oil held above $61 on Tuesday after   rebounding from a six-month low as speculators fear a deepening   fall could prompt OPEC to rein in output.
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U.S. oil prices hovered just shy of  $44 a barrel on Tuesday, awaiting the arrival of Hurricane Ivan  in the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico, where energy companies had  evacuated thousands of offshore workers and shut some  production.
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Oil prices rallied to a record above &#36;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 U.S. demand.
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Oil steadied above $64 on Thursday as   bargain hunters stepped in after a month-long rout and found   some support in a renewed U.S. push for immediate sanctions on   Iran, the world's fourth biggest crude exporter.
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U.S. stocks staged a late rally to end  higher on Wednesday even as crude oil prices touched a record  at over $52 per barrel, while the Nasdaq and Standard & Poor's  500 indexes notched their highest levels in months.
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Oil prices neared $52 for U.S. crude on  Wednesday, fueled by the impact of Hurricane Ivan on U.S.  winter inventories.
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Oil prices held steady near $47 on  Wednesday, a day after striking another record peak as U.S.  inflation stayed in check despite scorching energy costs and  ahead of weekly data expected to show a drop in crude stocks.
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Oil prices rallied further on Monday,  clawing back toward $50 a barrel on heightened concerns over  low supplies of winter heating fuels.
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WASHINGTON: Oil prices retreated slightly yesterday after surpassing $54 a barrel amid nagging concerns in the market that the global supply buffer is too thin to handle a significant output disruption.
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U.S. oil prices hovered near $47 a  barrel on Wednesday, awaiting data that was expected to show a  big drop in fuel stocks in the United States due to  weather-related disruptions to output and shipments.
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Oil prices broke into 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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Oil prices clung near the &#36;49 mark on Tuesday, pausing from a 12 percent slide from record highs ahead of key mid-week data on the health of winter fuel stockpiles in the leading consumer, the United States.
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Oil prices held firm around $51 per barrel on Wednesday, hovering near record highs amid the sluggish recovery in US Gulf oil production and an anticipated decline in key winter fuel stocks, dealers said.
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Oil prices held near $45 on Wednesday  after the U.S. government said that crude stocks shrank to a  five-month low last week as refineries ran hard to meet demand.