Tag: international oil prices

Oil prices on track for weekly loss as Chinese demand wanes

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HOUSTON: Oil prices slipped on Friday and were bound for a weekly loss as investors digested waning Chinese demand and a possible slowing of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut path. Brent crude futures dropped 71 cents, or 0.98%, to $71.85 a barrel by 10:32 a.m. EDT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were down 72 cents, or 1.05%, at $67.98. For the week, Brent is set to fall 2.9% while WTI is set to decline 3.6%. China’s oil refiners in October processed 4.6% less crude than a year…

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Petrol Goes Up By 5% in 2 WeeksStatus Quo in Petroleum Prices Should’ve Been MaintainedAtif Ikram Sheikh

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Karachi (PR): Mr. Atif Ikram Sheikh, President FPCCI, has maintained that the government should have kept the petroleum prices unchanged – given the slide in international oil prices by $1 per barrel on the back of relative calm in West Asian region after Iran – Israel conflict did not go out of hand as expected; and, the demand destruction due to lowered economic & trade activities. Mr. Atif Ikram Sheikh maintained that the trend in rupee-dollar parity is visible for all to see that rupee value will remain largely stable…

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