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Zitat:Oil Prices Zoom towards Possible $50 per Barrel by Winter
DEBKAfile Special Financial Report
August 3, 2004, 9:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
Oil prices touched another all time high of $44 per barrel in trading on Monday, August 2. Already jittery over stretched global energy supply, oil prices rocketed again - up from Friday’s $43.82 on New York - in response to the warning Sunday, August 1, of a possible al Qaeda attack on US and international financial centers in New York, Washington DC and New Jersey.
Last week, prices soared in response to the continuing turmoil at the Russian oil giant YUKOS and the long- running legal dispute between the Russian government and its imprisoned chief, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, on trial for alleged fraud and tax evasion.
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