Oil unsteady for storm pounds northeastern US
BANGKOK (AP) Oil prices were unsteady Tuesday meantime a massive storm was pounding the heavily populated U.S. East Coast, reducing claim as fuel forward keeping drivers off roads, closing businesses and silencing movement amid New York City and additional metropolitan areas.
Benchmark oil for December delivery edged 12 cents higher surrounded late afternoon Bangkok period to $85.66 per barrel among electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Crude fuel prices fell 74 cents,alternatively 1.three percent apt finish by $85.54 a barrel Monday. The Nymex was closed for the daytime for of the storm,yet electronic trading continued.
The biggest refineries amid the northeastern United States shut down alternatively throttled back sharply aboard Monday as the storm came ashore into New Jersey and hurled seawater at New York City, closing U.S. financial markets.
Analysts said the impact aboard claim with power outages and the shutdown of major cities, could be meaningful,whatever there was the likelihood that some oil imports would also be hack off.
Oil critic Stephen Schork said within an email explication that "with lower Manhattan in the black roads from Connecticut apt Delaware closed and refineries shut, the want of implied claim namely overshadowing potential afford disruptions from Sandy."
In London, Brent crude, which namely acclimate to spend international varieties of fuel rose 39 cents per barrel to $109.73.
In additional energy futures trading surrounded New York:
Heating fuel fell marginally to $3.0867 per gallon.
Wholesale gasoline rose 0.two cents apt $2.7588 per gallon.
Natural gas fell marginally apt $3.797 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Benchmark oil for December delivery edged 12 cents higher surrounded late afternoon Bangkok period to $85.66 per barrel among electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Crude fuel prices fell 74 cents,alternatively 1.three percent apt finish by $85.54 a barrel Monday. The Nymex was closed for the daytime for of the storm,yet electronic trading continued.
The biggest refineries amid the northeastern United States shut down alternatively throttled back sharply aboard Monday as the storm came ashore into New Jersey and hurled seawater at New York City, closing U.S. financial markets.
Analysts said the impact aboard claim with power outages and the shutdown of major cities, could be meaningful,whatever there was the likelihood that some oil imports would also be hack off.
Oil critic Stephen Schork said within an email explication that "with lower Manhattan in the black roads from Connecticut apt Delaware closed and refineries shut, the want of implied claim namely overshadowing potential afford disruptions from Sandy."
In London, Brent crude, which namely acclimate to spend international varieties of fuel rose 39 cents per barrel to $109.73.
In additional energy futures trading surrounded New York:
Heating fuel fell marginally to $3.0867 per gallon.
Wholesale gasoline rose 0.two cents apt $2.7588 per gallon.
Natural gas fell marginally apt $3.797 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Follow Pamela Sampson aboard Twitter by sampson
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