Wednesday, January 2, 2008

REKORDPREIS: Ölpreis knackt 100-Dollar-Marke

That's Der Spiegel. Here's more:
Ölplattform bei Angola: Vor einem Jahr schienen 100 Dollar noch eine Horrorvision
AFP

Ölplattform bei Angola: Vor einem Jahr schienen 100 Dollar noch eine Horrorvision

David Gaffen at MarketBeat:


Oil Hits $100…We Think

Has oil hit $100 or not? The New York Mercantile Exchange has confirmed that the front-month crude-oil contract indeed briefly touched the $100 mark in trading. However, the trades are few in number, and the $100 trades seem out of whack with where the market was trading in general.

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Crude oil briefly touched $100. Whether it holds up remains to be seen.

According to several analysts, the highest trade recorded in Globex electronic trading was $99.60 a barrel. Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Alaron Trading, says that the talk on the trading floor centers around one trade made at $100 a barrel, saying that “there’s going to be a lot of people crying foul about oil hitting $100, questioning whether it’s a legitimate trade.”...MORE