Στα 34 δολάρια κατσαμε, για να δούμε
Τωρα που κάτσαμε στα 34 δολλάρια να δούμε τι κόλπο θα στήσουν για αρχίσουμε να ανεβαίνουμε
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Hμερομηνία : 16-01-09
Στα 34 δολάρια η τιμή του ελαφρού αργού Η αγορά ανησυχεί για τη συνεχιζόμενη μείωση της ζήτησης. Ελαφρά πτώση καταγράφουν οι τιμές του πετρελαίου με την αγορά να ανησυχεί για τη συνεχιζόμενη μείωση της ζήτησης λόγω της παγκόσμιας οικονομικής κρίσης. Η τιμή του αργού κατέγραψε χθες μεγάλη πτώση υποχωρώντας ως τα 33,84 δολάρια.
Η τιμή του ελαφρού αργού για συμβόλαια παράδοσης Φεβρουαρίου κατέγραφε πτώση 76 σεντς στα 34,64 δολάρια το βαρέλι.
Οι αβέβαιες οικονομικές συνθήκες προκάλεσαν τον ΟΠΕΚ να προβλέψει πτώση της παγκόσμιας ζήτησης κατά 180.000 βαρέλια την ημέρα το 2009, αριθμός που είναι αυξημένος κατά 30.000 βαρέλια. Τα αποθέματα που έχουν αυξηθεί σε επίπεδα ρεκόρ στις ΗΠΑ συμβάλλουν στην πτώση του αμερικανικού ελαφρού αργού, σε αντίθεση με το αργό τύπου μπρεντ, το οποίο υποχωρεί σε μικρότερο βαθμό, αυξάνοντας όμως τη μεταξύ τους διαφορά στα 10 δολάρια.
Οι αναλυτές επισημαίνουν ότι τις πρώτες μέρες του έτους ενισχύθηκαν λόγω της κατανάλωσης την περίοδο των εορτών και του ψυχρότερου καιρού, αλλά τώρα έχουν επιστρέψει σε πτωτική τροχιά υπό το βάρος των δυσοίωνων οικονομικών στοιχείων και της χαμηλής ζήτησης.
Εξάλλου, οι αρμόδιες αρχές στις ΗΠΑ προβλέπουν ότι η παγκόσμια κατανάλωση το 2009 θα μειωθεί κατά 800.000 βαρέλια ημερησίως, εκτίμηση που δεν θα βοηθήσει στη συγκράτηση των τιμών του αργού.
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Κυριακή 18 Ιανουαρίου 2009
Πέμπτη 17 Ιουλίου 2008
Οποιος ξερει δεν προβλέπει και οποιος προβλέπει δεν ξέρει
Κινέζικη παροιμία ,
2008-07-17 22:34
Τώρα που το πετρέλαιο επεσε κατω απο 130$/βαρέλι κανείς δεν κάνει προβλέψεις, εγώ λέω αντε και στα 15 $ , σε κανένα-δύο χρόνια ,διοτι αφου δεν ξέρω προβλέπω
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080717/oil_prices.html
AP Oil tumbles below $130; natural gas falls sharplyThursday July 17, 3:06 pm ET By Adam Schreck, AP Business Writer
Oil tumbles for third day in a row; natural gas dives by biggest amount in nearly a year
NEW YORK (AP) -- Oil prices fell below $130 a barrel for the first time in more than a month Thursday, as a dramatic slide entered a third day along with a sharp sell-off in natural gas.
The declines accelerated amid growing concerns about the weakening U.S. economy.
"The entire buillish scenario ... is starting to crack," said James Cordier, president of Tampa, Fla.-based trading firms Liberty Trading Group and OptionSellers.com.
Light, sweet crude for August delivery dropped $5.31 to settle at $129.29 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices have fallen more than $15 in just the past three days.
Natural gas futures for August delivery fell more than 8 percent Thursday, marking their biggest one-day drop in nearly a year, according to Nathan Golz, researcher at Wachovia Securities in St. Louis. Prices for the key heating, cooking and power generation fuel have tumbled more than 20 percent since their peak before the Fourth of July, and are now trading at their lowest point since April.
A number of market observers say there was nothing supporting the run up in natural gas prices, which peaked in early July, and that this week's sell-off of oil has only helped speed the declines.
"Any time oil goes up or down on Nymex, it's going to have a carry-over effect on natural gas," said Michael Rieke, senior managing editor for power and gas at energy research firm Platts.
The immediate cause of Thursday's sharp natural gas decline was a larger-than-expected build of U.S. supplies.
The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report that natural gas inventories held in underground storage in the lower 48 states rose by 104 billion cubic feet to more 2.31 trillion last week. Analysts had been expecting supplies to grow by only 86 billion to 91 billion cubic feet, according to a Platts survey.
Oil prices fell more than $10 over the previous two days on growing concerns that inflation and other economic concerns could reduce demand for crude. A surprisingly large gain in oil and refined fuel inventories in the U.S. prolonged the sell-off, because it suggested more supplies were heading into storage rather than consumers' fuel tanks.
Reports of a pre-dawn explosion that damaged an oil pipeline in Nigeria's restive south -- the sort of threat to supply that has helped fuel crude's recent rally -- did little to prop up prices Thursday.
A Nigerian military official said the blast on a pipeline owned by Agip, a subsidiary of the Italian energy giant Eni SpA, "affected output," although he did not say by how much.
Col. Chris Musa, head of the Bayelsa State military, also did not say how severe the damage was, and declined to comment on what might have caused the explosion or whether it had resulted in any casualties.
The company said a sudden drop in pressure led it to halt production on pipelines carrying 47,000 gallons of oil a day.
Attacks on oil industry infrastructure in the past two years have slashed oil output by almost a quarter in Nigeria, Africa's top crude producer.
At the gas pump, prices held steady at a record $4.114 a gallon, according to auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. Diesel rose to a new record of $4.845, up more than half a penny.
In other Nymex trade, heating oil fell 6.62 cents to $3.7748 a gallon, while gasoline futures gained slipped fell 9.92 cents to $3.1802.
Brent crude for September delivery fell 51 to $135.30 on the ICE Futures Exchange in London.
Associated Press Writers William Nsoyoh in Yenagoa, Nigeria, and Stevenson Jacobs in New York contributed to this report.
2008-07-17 22:34
Τώρα που το πετρέλαιο επεσε κατω απο 130$/βαρέλι κανείς δεν κάνει προβλέψεις, εγώ λέω αντε και στα 15 $ , σε κανένα-δύο χρόνια ,διοτι αφου δεν ξέρω προβλέπω
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080717/oil_prices.html
AP Oil tumbles below $130; natural gas falls sharplyThursday July 17, 3:06 pm ET By Adam Schreck, AP Business Writer
Oil tumbles for third day in a row; natural gas dives by biggest amount in nearly a year
NEW YORK (AP) -- Oil prices fell below $130 a barrel for the first time in more than a month Thursday, as a dramatic slide entered a third day along with a sharp sell-off in natural gas.
The declines accelerated amid growing concerns about the weakening U.S. economy.
"The entire buillish scenario ... is starting to crack," said James Cordier, president of Tampa, Fla.-based trading firms Liberty Trading Group and OptionSellers.com.
Light, sweet crude for August delivery dropped $5.31 to settle at $129.29 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices have fallen more than $15 in just the past three days.
Natural gas futures for August delivery fell more than 8 percent Thursday, marking their biggest one-day drop in nearly a year, according to Nathan Golz, researcher at Wachovia Securities in St. Louis. Prices for the key heating, cooking and power generation fuel have tumbled more than 20 percent since their peak before the Fourth of July, and are now trading at their lowest point since April.
A number of market observers say there was nothing supporting the run up in natural gas prices, which peaked in early July, and that this week's sell-off of oil has only helped speed the declines.
"Any time oil goes up or down on Nymex, it's going to have a carry-over effect on natural gas," said Michael Rieke, senior managing editor for power and gas at energy research firm Platts.
The immediate cause of Thursday's sharp natural gas decline was a larger-than-expected build of U.S. supplies.
The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report that natural gas inventories held in underground storage in the lower 48 states rose by 104 billion cubic feet to more 2.31 trillion last week. Analysts had been expecting supplies to grow by only 86 billion to 91 billion cubic feet, according to a Platts survey.
Oil prices fell more than $10 over the previous two days on growing concerns that inflation and other economic concerns could reduce demand for crude. A surprisingly large gain in oil and refined fuel inventories in the U.S. prolonged the sell-off, because it suggested more supplies were heading into storage rather than consumers' fuel tanks.
Reports of a pre-dawn explosion that damaged an oil pipeline in Nigeria's restive south -- the sort of threat to supply that has helped fuel crude's recent rally -- did little to prop up prices Thursday.
A Nigerian military official said the blast on a pipeline owned by Agip, a subsidiary of the Italian energy giant Eni SpA, "affected output," although he did not say by how much.
Col. Chris Musa, head of the Bayelsa State military, also did not say how severe the damage was, and declined to comment on what might have caused the explosion or whether it had resulted in any casualties.
The company said a sudden drop in pressure led it to halt production on pipelines carrying 47,000 gallons of oil a day.
Attacks on oil industry infrastructure in the past two years have slashed oil output by almost a quarter in Nigeria, Africa's top crude producer.
At the gas pump, prices held steady at a record $4.114 a gallon, according to auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. Diesel rose to a new record of $4.845, up more than half a penny.
In other Nymex trade, heating oil fell 6.62 cents to $3.7748 a gallon, while gasoline futures gained slipped fell 9.92 cents to $3.1802.
Brent crude for September delivery fell 51 to $135.30 on the ICE Futures Exchange in London.
Associated Press Writers William Nsoyoh in Yenagoa, Nigeria, and Stevenson Jacobs in New York contributed to this report.
Κυριακή 20 Απριλίου 2008
Earth Day is a Holiday for Liars
Απο την εφημεριδα usadaily
Earth Day is a Holiday for Liars
Alan Caruba
Published 04/20/2008 - 8:14 a.m. EST
Earth Day is a holiday for liars.
I have followed the apocalyptic claims and the legislated mandates of the environmental movement since the 1970s and their single unifying factor has been the lies told to achieve various elements the Green agenda.Since 1970, April 22 has been celebrated as Earth Day. It is generally regarded as the date of the birth of the modern environmental movement. There are several common attributes of environmentalism. High on the list is its barely hidden contempt for the human race, the view that the world’s population has to be drastically reduced and that our consumption of everything from energy resources to agricultural and livestock production threatens the planet.
The food riots occurring around the world are the direct result of environmental mandates for biofuels, based on claims of global warming, but the Earth is cooling, not warming.Earth Day had its antecedents in the United Nations that has long maintained an international environmental program. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has generated the current climate alarmism whose “science”, based on flawed computer models, has been totally discredited as often as not by the scientists it pretends to represent.The incessant Green protests of everything and anything that might advance the welfare of the human race, from nuclear power to the Green Revolution that has insured sufficient food for the current and future population of the Earth, is the third element. These protests, too, are based on deliberate distortions of science and fact. Fear mongering has always been the movement’s instrument of choice to influence public opinion and policy. A simple case in point was the reversal of an extensive campaign in the 1970s warning of a coming Ice Age to one that began in the 1980s about “global warming.” Early Greens spread lies across a vast spectrum of issues, invariably causing incalculable harm. An example was Rachel Carson’s claims about DDT that resulted in its ban. Millions have since died for lack of the protection it affords against malaria and other insect-borne diseases. A full-scale attack on all pesticides and herbicides, critical to disease control and the world’s food supply, continues.In 1968 Paul Ehrlich’s book, “The Population Bomb”, included the claim that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over.” He later claimed the Green Revolution, based on the modification of crops to resist drought and predation, would fail. Wrong again. The linking of population and food consumption is a consistent environmental theme.The claim that greenhouse gas emissions must be drastically reduced is an attack on all forms of industrialization, i.e., corporations and the globalization that require the use of energy resources such as coal, natural gas, and oil. Energy is the single reason for America’s and the world’s economic growth and the enhancement of life through all manner of technologies involving transportation, communication, and agricultural advances. By blocking access to energy such as the ban on oil extraction in ANWR or off the coasts of the United States, by lobbying against the building of coal-fired and nuclear electricity generation plants, by arguing for inefficient, highly subsidized solar and wind alternatives, Greens are creating a national energy crisis. How insane is it to ban the purchase of incandescent light bulbs?There is no scientific justification for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide represents a miniscule 0.038% of the Earth’s atmosphere and increases in CO2 always follow climate change. It does not initiate it. The Greens are lying.The increasing food riots occurring worldwide are a direct result of the way the price of corn and soy has been artificially driven upward by environmental demands for “biofuels.” When Congress set in motion the mandate that countless bushels of corn be diverted as a food source for humans and livestock to the production of ethanol, it started a cascade of food shortages worldwide that were further exacerbated by weather related crop failures. Environmentalists have spread lies about all manner of food consumption. Eating beef is high on their list of grievances. Not incidentally, corn is a major feedstock for beef and other animals that are part of our daily diet. The Associated Press recently reported that “Worldwide demand for corn to feed livestock and to make biofuel is putting enormous pressure on global supply.” From prehistoric times to the present, meat has been one of mankind’s most invaluable sources of our health.Along with the nation’s politicians, the nation’s print and broadcast media and our educational system have accepted environmental claims without skepticism or review. Since its release, children have been required to watch Al Gore’s duplicitous documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and today’s textbooks are replete with environmental falsehoods. On Earth Day, the media is flooded with Green propaganda.Earth Day would be a good day to begin to take back the Earth from those who would deceive us and harm us.
Alan Caruba writes a weekly column posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center, http://www.anxietycenter.com/. He blogs at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/
Views expressed are solely those of the author
Επι τελους καποιος παει κοντρα στο ρεύμα , μπράβο μεγάλε,
Earth Day is a Holiday for Liars
Alan Caruba
Published 04/20/2008 - 8:14 a.m. EST
Earth Day is a holiday for liars.
I have followed the apocalyptic claims and the legislated mandates of the environmental movement since the 1970s and their single unifying factor has been the lies told to achieve various elements the Green agenda.Since 1970, April 22 has been celebrated as Earth Day. It is generally regarded as the date of the birth of the modern environmental movement. There are several common attributes of environmentalism. High on the list is its barely hidden contempt for the human race, the view that the world’s population has to be drastically reduced and that our consumption of everything from energy resources to agricultural and livestock production threatens the planet.
The food riots occurring around the world are the direct result of environmental mandates for biofuels, based on claims of global warming, but the Earth is cooling, not warming.Earth Day had its antecedents in the United Nations that has long maintained an international environmental program. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has generated the current climate alarmism whose “science”, based on flawed computer models, has been totally discredited as often as not by the scientists it pretends to represent.The incessant Green protests of everything and anything that might advance the welfare of the human race, from nuclear power to the Green Revolution that has insured sufficient food for the current and future population of the Earth, is the third element. These protests, too, are based on deliberate distortions of science and fact. Fear mongering has always been the movement’s instrument of choice to influence public opinion and policy. A simple case in point was the reversal of an extensive campaign in the 1970s warning of a coming Ice Age to one that began in the 1980s about “global warming.” Early Greens spread lies across a vast spectrum of issues, invariably causing incalculable harm. An example was Rachel Carson’s claims about DDT that resulted in its ban. Millions have since died for lack of the protection it affords against malaria and other insect-borne diseases. A full-scale attack on all pesticides and herbicides, critical to disease control and the world’s food supply, continues.In 1968 Paul Ehrlich’s book, “The Population Bomb”, included the claim that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over.” He later claimed the Green Revolution, based on the modification of crops to resist drought and predation, would fail. Wrong again. The linking of population and food consumption is a consistent environmental theme.The claim that greenhouse gas emissions must be drastically reduced is an attack on all forms of industrialization, i.e., corporations and the globalization that require the use of energy resources such as coal, natural gas, and oil. Energy is the single reason for America’s and the world’s economic growth and the enhancement of life through all manner of technologies involving transportation, communication, and agricultural advances. By blocking access to energy such as the ban on oil extraction in ANWR or off the coasts of the United States, by lobbying against the building of coal-fired and nuclear electricity generation plants, by arguing for inefficient, highly subsidized solar and wind alternatives, Greens are creating a national energy crisis. How insane is it to ban the purchase of incandescent light bulbs?There is no scientific justification for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide represents a miniscule 0.038% of the Earth’s atmosphere and increases in CO2 always follow climate change. It does not initiate it. The Greens are lying.The increasing food riots occurring worldwide are a direct result of the way the price of corn and soy has been artificially driven upward by environmental demands for “biofuels.” When Congress set in motion the mandate that countless bushels of corn be diverted as a food source for humans and livestock to the production of ethanol, it started a cascade of food shortages worldwide that were further exacerbated by weather related crop failures. Environmentalists have spread lies about all manner of food consumption. Eating beef is high on their list of grievances. Not incidentally, corn is a major feedstock for beef and other animals that are part of our daily diet. The Associated Press recently reported that “Worldwide demand for corn to feed livestock and to make biofuel is putting enormous pressure on global supply.” From prehistoric times to the present, meat has been one of mankind’s most invaluable sources of our health.Along with the nation’s politicians, the nation’s print and broadcast media and our educational system have accepted environmental claims without skepticism or review. Since its release, children have been required to watch Al Gore’s duplicitous documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and today’s textbooks are replete with environmental falsehoods. On Earth Day, the media is flooded with Green propaganda.Earth Day would be a good day to begin to take back the Earth from those who would deceive us and harm us.
Alan Caruba writes a weekly column posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center, http://www.anxietycenter.com/. He blogs at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/
Views expressed are solely those of the author
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