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Not surprisingly, the European Central Bank raised interest rates by 25 bp to 4.25 per cent. What was more interesting was the fact that Mr Trichet did not indicate that interest rates will be raised at the next meeting in a month’s time. This helped to bring about a fall in the EUR/USD rate, which is trading this morning at 157.15. As expected, oil which traded before the announcement at USD 145.15 a barrel, reacted to the ECB rhetoric and the strong dollar by shedding almost two dollars to

Headlines Revived greenback eases precious and base metals

Headlines U.S. inventories send crude to new records Strikes in Peru increase copper supply worries Brent and Distillates Oil prices rose to new record levels on Wednesday after data showed US crude stockpiles fell. U.S. crude oil inventories fell much more than expected last week as imports decreased and refiners increased runs. Crude stockpiles decreased by 2 mln.bbl. to 299.8 mln.bbl. This by far topped analysts’ expectations that stocks fell 100 kb. U.S. gasoline supplies, meanwhile, rose

Crude oil: according to the weekly US inventories, crude oil stocks were lower than expected: yesterday’s data showed a fall of 2 million barrels. Consensus was for a fall of 0.8 million barrels. This seemed to be what market participants had been waiting for. The price rose, but more than that, it closed above USD 143 a barrel (WTI). Dollar depreciation supported commodities in general. Brent oil closed above USD 144 a barrel. These past few days, the price has risen intraday only to fall

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After Monday’s massive reduction by the US Department of Energy of oil demand in the US, the International Energy Agency (IEA) affected the oil market on Tuesday. The IEA lowered its estimate of supply growth outside OPEC in 2009 and 2010 by 1 million barrels a day for both years. Also, the IEA stressed that the main reason for the rising oil prices is disappointing growth in supply since 2004 and bottlenecks within crude oil refining. The IEA expects OPEC’s surplus capacity to peak in 2010

Headlines Crude oil price supports precious metals Copper higher due to Latin America labour unrests

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