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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (168119)8/7/2011 11:33:22 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 543974
 
Undertow on August 7, 2011 - 9:06am Israeli stock market now down 7.3%. Oil & Gas stocks down 9.5%. US Futures Markets open in 8 hours time.

"this downturn?" today? World reacting to Teappers' Downgrade.

"Oil prices are down 40% since the high"

Are they, or is WTI the outlier?

Undertow on August 5, 2011 - 6:12pm Here are today's Bloomberg listed closing prices for the world spot markets as previously listed at upstreamonline

Brent $109.43
Tapis $117.00
Alaska $106.88
Dubai $102.73
Louisiana $110.63
Urals $107.99
WTI $ 86.88
Oman $103.15
Minas $117.45
Forties $109.46
Bonny $118.85

Crude Oil Estimated Contract Prices

Most Recent .........................Year Ago
.....................07/29/11............ 07/30/10
Total OPEC 115.23 ..............74.97
Total Non-OPEC 113.65...... 74.32
Total World 114.59 ..............74.69
United States 107.96 ...........73.15

theoildrum.com

I think the world hit another oil (and food) wall in May/June. Everybody has started slowing down, including China. Russia and China had gas shortages back then. Our consumption fell 1.25 M BPD the last week in April. By a strange coincidence, unemployment went up in May and June.
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