Oil Market

North And South America Could Become Major Oil Players

The Washington Post | JUAN FORERO | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Energy, Oil and Gas, Oil Market, South America, Oil Production, Oil Drilling, Oil and Gas Industry, Gas Production, Oil, North America, Business News

LOMA LA LATA, Argentina — In a desertlike stretch of scrub grass and red buttes, oil companies are punching holes in the ground in search of what mi...

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Mark Gongloff

What's Roiling The Oil Market Now?

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Oil Market, Arab Spring, Regime Change, Syria Oil, Oil Prices, Bashar Assad, James Clapper, Syria Protests, Bashar Al-Assad, Syria, Business News

Another falling dictator might soon make a splash in the oil market. The latest domino set to drop in the Middle East appears to be Bashar Assad of...

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The Cowboys in Congress

Paul Heroux | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Oil, Oil Market, Iran, Michele Bachmann, US Congress, Opec, Iran Nuclear Weapons, US Senate, Politics News
Paul Heroux

What are the options for dealing with Iran's nuclear program? We can do nothing; but doing nothing isn't a real option. We can use our military to target Iran's nuclear sites, but this is bound to have unforeseen consequences. Or we can sanction Iran.

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Media Squawked When It Should Have Jumped on Oil Market Speculation Coverage

Dan Froomkin | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Oil Market, Bernie Sanders, Oil Market Manipulation, Speculation, Media News
Dan Froomkin

When Bernie Sanders leaked confidential data last month that dramatically illustrated how speculators were dominating the oil futures market during the 2008 spike in oil prices, many news outlets jumped on the story in the worst possible way.

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Peter S. Goodman

Obama Hints U.S. Might Tap Petroleum Reserves To Combat Libya Oil Disruption

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: India, Libya, Gas Prices, White House, Oil Market, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, President Obama, Heath Zichal, Domestic Oil, China, Business News

WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Wednesday appeared to raise the possibility that the administration would release oil from the nation’s strategic p...

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Feds' Oil Manipulation Lawsuits Are 'Rubbish,' Shipping Magnate Says

Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Oil Traders, Oil Market, Gas Prices, Arcadia Energy, John Friedriksen, James Dyer, Commodities, Oil Prices, Nick Wildgoose, Oil Market Manipulation, Cftc, Business News

OSLO (Reuters) - Shipping magnate John Fredriksen said U.S. regulator lawsuits against two of his trading firms for suspected oil price manipulati...

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Oil Speculators: Manipulative Evil Masterminds Or Just Savvy Investors?

DailyFinance | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Energy, Oil Market, Oil Speculators Market, Oil Speculation, Oil Speculators, Ice, Business, Crude Prices, Oil Investing, Nymex, Cftc, Business News

As the price of oil climbed over the past few months, a growing army of commentators and pundits grimly hinted about "speculators" who were manipulati...

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Is Hugo Chavez Ready for the Coming Fall?

Francisco Toro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Market, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Petrostate, South America, Poverty, World, Money, Economy, Oil, Poverty Abroad, Petroleum, Pat Robertson, World News
Francisco Toro

Venezuela is a petrostate: the government owns the only oil company, and oil prices rose every single year from the turn of the century through last year.

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Oil plunges to 13-month low on global slowdown

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Oil Prices, Oil Market, Gas Prices, Oil Prices Fall, Oil Demand, Business News

NEW YORK — The stunning collapse in oil markets accelerated Friday, sending a barrel of crude plunging below $78 as investors grow more pessimis...

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Oil Prices Shoot Up More Than $6 A Barrel

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil, Gas Prices, Oil Market, Business News

NEW YORK — Oil prices shot up more than $6 a barrel Friday, breaking back into $100 territory as a sweeping government plan to rescue the imperi...

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What's Going On in the Oil Market?

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, Oil Prices, Declining Dollar, Oil Market, Business News
Hale

The reasons for oil's upward spike run deep and wide. The main contributing factor -- the dollar's drop -- isn't going away anytime soon, largely because the US' federal finances are a total wreck.

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Gingrich Mounts Campaign to 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less'

David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Newt Gingrich, Oil Market, Gas Prices, Oil Drilling, Saudi Arabia, Green, Alaska Oil, Kuwait, Republicans, Anwr, Politics News
David Roberts

The U.S. cannot affect oil or gasoline prices in any significant way by drilling more oil. Full stop. Gingrich is knowingly lying to people (and taking their money).

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Sam Stein

The Iraq Recession: Debate Raging Over War's Economic Impact

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Housing Market, Gary Hart, Economic Recession, Iraq War Recession, War, Oil Market, Oil Prices, Oil, Iraq War, Robert Samuelson, Robert Shapiro, Congress, Housing Crisis, Elias Tuma, Politics News

Within the halls of Congress and on editorial pages of the country's newspapers, questions are being raised as to whether the Iraq war bears responsib...

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BP To Plead Guilty To Criminal Environmental Charges, Pay $50 Mil Fine

Wall Street Journal | ANN DAVIS, MATTHEW DALTON, GUY CHAZAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Market, Tony Hayward, British Petroleum, Bp, Propane Market, Business News

New BP PLC Chief Executive Tony Hayward is making sweeping moves to clean up the oil giant's operational and regulatory troubles. Among them: an expec...

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