Beijing early morning of February 11, New York crude oil futures prices on Friday closed down, mainly due to investors' worries about the Greek crisis has been rekindled, and the International Energy Agency (IEA) lowered its 2012 global oil demand is expected.
Day, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) light sweet crude for delivery in March fell $ 1.17, to close at $ 98.67 a barrel, down 1.2%; in this week's trading, New York crude oil futures prices rose 0.8%, mainly due to up 1.6 percent Tuesday and Thursday up 1.1 percent, investors welcomed the Greek aid agreement seems to be reached.
Eurex in March, London's ICE Brent crude oil futures delivery prices cents to close at $ 117.31 a barrel, down 1.08 percent. Closing price, the difference between the Brent crude oil futures in New York, light sweet crude futures for U.S. dollars a barrel, the difference in the October 14 last year touched $ 27.88 a barrel, the highest level in history.
The exchange rate of U.S. dollar against most major international counterparties, both to rise, leading to one of the reasons for crude oil futures prices under pressure. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the dollar index at 79.145 points and 78.582 points Thursday. Earlier Friday, IEA 2012 global oil demand averaged are expected to fall to 80 million barrels, lower than the previous forecast of 110 million barrels, mainly due to global economic growth is expected to be down.
In other energy trading in the New York Mercantile Exchange, RBOB gasoline futures prices for March delivery fell 4 cents to close at $ 2.97 per gallon (about $ 0.78 per liter), a decrease of 1.3%, but in the week trading up 2.1 percent; heating oil futures prices for March delivery fell 3 cents to close at per gallon, $ 3.18 (about $ 0.84 per liter), a decrease of 0.8%, but rose in the week's trading 2.2%; natural gas futures prices for March delivery closed yesterday's closing will remain unchanged, reported per million British thermal units, $ 2.48, down 0.8 percent in the week's trading.