Nearest oil futures prices decrease by 9.23 % - 9.84 % on major world trading floors

30.09.08 14:35
/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, September 30, 08/ - By the results of trades of September 29 this year: - on NYMEX (New York) the price of Light Sweet Crude Oil mixture with delivery in November 2008 decreased by 9.84 % to $96.37 per barrel; - on ICE (London) price of November Brent Forties Oseburg futures fell by 9.23 % to $93.98 per barrel Oil sharply fell as the USA Congress rejected the $700 bn. bailout. 207 members of the House of Representatives of the Congress voted for the Act on extraordinary economical stabilization 2008 to be passed, and 226 were against. As the major argument of the draft law's opponents proposed the idea that the Americans consider the Wall Street support plan as an attempt to save bankers at the expense of ordinary citizens. The data of exchanges, published in various information systems, have been used to create this message. [2008-09-30]