Crude oil prices were pushed up Thursday afternoon, on the back of strike threats in Brazil, while paper coal prices continued to soften.
Employees at Brazil's biggest oil company, Petrobas, threatened to go on a five-day strike next week on platforms in the offshore Campos Basin, where 80 per cent of the country's oil is produced. Prices also rose after a Nigerian militant group said it will end a cease-fire this week, according to media reports.The front-month Brent contract gained as much as 5.45 dollars to se
Freitag, 11.07.2008, 07:58 Uhr
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