Sentence examples for crude contracts from inspiring English sources

Saudi MinPet: "Blame it on the Weak Dollar" 13. (C) The Saudi Ministry of Petroleum has noted to us in RIYADH 00000868 004 OF 004 consultations throughout 2007 and in January 2008 that much of the run-up of the price of crude could be blamed on the gradual decline in the USD, as crude contracts are priced in dollars.

Light sweet crude contracts for March delivery fell 84 cents.

Front-month crude contracts gained 19 cents to $76.98 per barrel.

Brent Blend Brentt): Roughly two-thirds of all crude contracts around the world reference Brent Blend, making it the most widely used marker of all.

The outlook is as gloomy as ever after January crude contracts fell to an all-time low in the wake of last weeks OPEC meeting, which produced no results.

The CFTC wants to limit the amount of U.S. oil contracts held by investors on the InterContinental Exchange 's London subsidiary which is largely exempt from U.S.-style regulations but its proposal crucially does not extend to European Brent crude contracts.

U.S. equities should open lower, due partly to worries about the climbing oil price as U.S. crude oil contracts flirt with the $40 per-barrel level.

One concerns newspaper accounts alleging that Nigeria's minister for petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, routinely awards crude oil contracts to hastily registered companies fronted by people not previously known to be involved in the industry.

[C3.] Price of Crude Oil Surpasses $60 a Barrel With little relief for oil markets on the horizon, crude oil contracts in New York traded above $60 a barrel for the first time, as demand for fuel showed few signs of slowing despite the highest energy costs in over 20 years.

Some have introduced bonds that are backed by crude oil contracts, for example.

The result was a decline in the price of near-term crude oil contracts.