Archives: crude oil prices

Crude oil prices today are holding stubbornly around the $75 to $80 a barrel range and seem to be building a base for yet another thrust to the upside. While crude oil prices for today are well below the peak 2008 price of $147 a barrel they have not fallen as far as one might [...]

For the past several months crude oil prices have been difficult to keep up with. The daily price fluctuations have been extreme. While moving from a high of about $147.00 a barrel in July 2008, to a recent low of just under $32.00 a barrel, crude oil prices experienced gut wrenching volatility.
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Crude oil prices receive a tremendous amount of attention from every type of investor, whether they are running their own small investment portfolio or managing billions of dollars in a highly leveraged hedge fund.
The close attention that crude oil prices receive in understandable given that crude oil is truly the life blood of the modern [...]

Studying a crude oil price chart is the quickest and easiest way to keep track of a volatile crude oil market.
A crude oil price chart is on every page of the Current Crude Oil Prices website. Look at the right hand side of the page near the top. The chart can be changed with one [...]

Current crude oil prices have very likely overshot the mark on the downside even with a world wide recession underway.
As crude oil prices advanced last year above $100 a barrel long speculative positions were undertaken by hedge funds, financial institutions, and speculators of all stripes in the belief that crude oil prices would advance beyond [...]