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Oil prices drop as jobs data add to demand worries
AP - Fri Sep 5, 4:40 PM ETNEW YORK - Oil prices sank to a five-month low Friday as a jump in the U.S. unemployment rate signaled to traders that Americans might keep paring back their energy use to save money.
Off the Wires
- U.S. filmmaker provisionally released in Nigeria Reuters - Fri Sep 5, 8:12 PM ET
- Oil prices drop as jobs data add to demand worries AP - Fri Sep 5, 4:40 PM ET
- US oil and gas rig count down by 18 AP - Fri Sep 5, 2:06 PM ET
- Libya says oil market is oversupplied AFP - Fri Sep 5, 1:27 PM ET
- Alaska gas project hailed by Palin still embryonic Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 6:57 PM ET
News Stories
- Oil prices slide on sinking energy demand at CNN/Money - Fri, Sep 05, 2008
- As Oil Prices Fall, OPEC Faces a Balancing Act at The New York Times - Fri, Sep 05, 2008
- Oil slides toward $100 a barrel at BBC - Tue, Sep 02, 2008
- Gulf Oil Industry Seems Unscathed at The New York Times - Tue, Sep 02, 2008
- Oil complex spared the brunt of Gustav at The Los Angeles Times - Mon, Sep 01, 2008
Feature Articles
- West Texas oil patch towns reap benefits of boom AP via Yahoo! News - Mon, Aug 18, 2008
- The case for offshore oil drilling at CNN/Money - Wed, Aug 13, 2008
- GOP sees advantage in offshore oil drilling The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Wed, Aug 13, 2008
- Battle for Oil: EU's hope to bypass Russian energy may be a pipe dream at The Independent (UK) - Tue, Aug 12, 2008
- Russia's vast energy supplies worry US AP via Yahoo! News - Tue, Aug 12, 2008
- Gas Prices Apply Brakes To Suburban Migration at The Washington Post - Tue, Aug 05, 2008
Opinion & Editorials
- Drilling For Clean Energy at The Washington Post - Fri, Sep 05, 2008
- She may grump about high gas prices, but they've reunited mother and son - on two wheels. at The Los Angeles Times - Mon, Aug 25, 2008
- All the Oil We Need at The New York Times - Thu, Aug 21, 2008
- To drill or not to drill? at The Los Angeles Times - Tue, Aug 19, 2008
- Gas is affordable at Christian Science Monitor - Thu, Aug 14, 2008
- Energy's silver lining at The Los Angeles Times - Wed, Aug 13, 2008
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Oil Industry
The oil market is starting to suffer from oversupply, the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman Shukri Ghanem said on Friday, days before a key OPEC meeting on ...
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- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
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- Fossil Energy: Petroleum Reserves
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- Energy Information Administration: Petroleum
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- International Energy Agency
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- CNNmoney: Commodities Prices
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