Nearest oil futures prices decrease 1.35 % - 1.37 % on major world trading floors
16.06.08 16:17
/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, June 16, 08/ - By the results of trades of June 13
this year:
- on NYMEX (New York) the price of Light Sweet Crude Oil mixture with
delivery in July 2008 decreased by 1.37 % to $134.86 per barrel;
- on ICE (London) price of July Brent Forties Oseburg futures fell by
1.35 % to $134.25 per barrel
Oil prices decreased with G8`s serious statement on intention to examine the
blowing oil "bubble" situation. On June 13, in Osaka the Ministers of Finance
of G8 announced that IMF and International Energy Agency will examine
speculative mechanisms on oil market. The corresponding report will be
ready for the annual shareholders meeting of IMF and World Bank in
autumn.
The joint communique says that "commodity growth prices, especially on oil
and foodstuffs, are the serious challenge for world economic stable growth
and may increase inflation pressure in the world".
The data of exchanges, published in various information systems, were used to
create this message.
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