Beijing July 15 morning news, New York crude oil futures prices ended lower on Thursday due to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben - Bernanke (Ben Bernanke), said the bank will not immediately launch the third round of "quantitative easing" plan for the U.S. provide further support for the economy.
Day, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) 8, light sweet crude for January delivery fell $ 2.36 to close at $ 95.69 a barrel, down 2.4 percent, the highest intraday down $ 3.52, the highest since June 23 has been The highest decline. Compared to last year, New York crude oil futures prices rose 23%.
London's ICE Futures Europe in August delivery price of Brent North Sea crude fell 52 cents to close at $ 118.26 a barrel, down 0.4% in August contract expires today; September contract fell $ 1.68, reported to close at $ 116.17 a barrel, down 1.4%. The North Sea Brent crude oil futures contract on the New York crude oil futures contract with the difference between the $ 22.64 per barrel, based on closing price on June 15, exceeded the record $ 22.29 a barrel, the highest level in history.
U.S. dollar against most major counterparties exchange rate rose, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) of the latest reported U.S. dollar index 75.286 points, slightly higher than Wednesday's 75.213 points.
In other Nymex energy trading, the August delivery RBOB gasoline futures fell 2 cents to close at $ 3.12 per gallon (about $ 0.82 per liter); August delivery of heating oil futures prices 1 cent, to close at $ 3.08 per gallon (about $ 0.81 per liter); August natural gas futures fell 3 cents to close at per million British thermal units $ 4.38, or 0.6%.
U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a report today that as of July 8 when the week to add 84 billion cubic feet of natural gas inventory ($ 2.4 billion cubic meters), analysts had expected to increase 77 billion cubic feet ( $ 2.2 billion cubic meters) to 81 billion cubic feet (about 23 billion cubic meters). (Jin-liang)