Nearest oil futures prices decrease by 0.54 % - 0.79 % on major world trading floors

/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, August 19, 08/ - By the results of trades of August 18 this year: - on NYMEX (New York) the price of Light Sweet Crude Oil mixture with delivery in September 2008 decreased by 0.79 % to $112.87 per barrel; - on ICE (London) price of October Brent Forties Oseburg futures fell by 0.54 % to $111.94 per barrel Oil continues to fall - slowing down demand on "black gold" on the side of USA and China remains the major quotation-decreasing factor. Anxieties on deliveries failure because of Phey storm in the Gulf of Mexico didn't affect trades, as it was known that the storm would pass by the most part of production infrastructure in this region. The data of exchanges, published in various information systems, have been used to create this message. [2008-08-19]