Nearest oil futures prices decrease by 5.33 % - 5.41 % on major world trading floors

/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, September 16, 08/ - By the results of trades of September 15 this year: - on NYMEX (New York) the price of Light Sweet Crude Oil mixture with delivery in October 2008 decreased by 5.41 % to $95.71 per barrel; - on ICE (London) price of October Brent Forties Oseburg futures fell by 5.33 % to $92.38 per barrel Monday oil market situation was changing after world stock market falling. Announcement on Lehman Brothers` bankruptcy and Bank of America` purchase Merrill Lynch for $50bn. as an emergency measure showed new wave of world crisis. In this aspect, announcement on hurricane Ike, which didn't touch oil and gas plants in Gulf of Mexico, but made some destruction in Houston, didn't influence oil quotations. The data of exchanges, published in various information systems, have been used to create this message. [2008-09-16]