Who is afraid of high oil prices? OPEC's power to paralyze industrial...

Research;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Oil prices have reached new records, surpassing...barrel in May. Just as in periods of low oil prices, when analysts typically expect the oil...endure for the foreseeable future, high oil prices inevitably occasion warnings that the...

High oil prices have benefits.(Local)

The Virginian Pilot;  February 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Street to Main Street, people hate high oil prices because they cause economic pain. But...wine and perhaps even chocolate, high oil prices can do some good, too. Current energy...Union speech, fails to do what higher oil prices can accomplish: decrease oil consumption...

A crude awakening; Oil prices.

The Economist (US);  August 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ......stuff still has the power to shock. Crude oil prices surged to a record $47 a barrel this...Japan and China are slowing. Could higher oil prices once again push the world economy into...matters much. Others, however, blame higher oil prices for the sharp slowdown in American ...

Asia's Troubles Helping to Keep Oil Prices Low in U.S.

The Washington Post;  June 19, 1998 ;     700+ words ...With oil prices at the lowest levels in more than a...consumers are benefiting from declines in oil prices and in the prices of some other commodities...the slowdown in demand in Asia. Lower oil prices also will offset some of the U.S. loss...

Rising oil prices and our economy

New Straits Times;  April 9, 2002 ;     473 words ......Straits Times 04-09-2002 Rising oil prices and our economy Edition: 2* BEING a net oil exporter, any rise in oil prices will be a shot in the arm for Malaysia...how long would the latest spike in oil prices last, since only elevated prices...

Shocking; Oil prices.

The Economist (US);  March 27, 2004 ;     577 words ...Oil prices are not as high as they look, nor yet a big threat to economic growth CRUDE oil prices topped $38 a barrel last week, their highest...increase has not been as large as it looks. Oil prices this week were roughly a third higher than...

Oil Prices Surge on Tensions; Word of Production Curbs, Gulf Unrest Halt...

The Washington Post;  December 23, 1987 ;     700+ words ......than a week of nervous trading that sent oil prices reeling, oil rebounded yesterday on reports...a major turnaround from last week, when oil prices fell $3 a barrel. The indication that oil prices might be stabilizing, or even improving...

Oil prices high, going higher; A nine-year peak in the price of crude...

The Christian Science Monitor;  November 26, 1999 ;     700+ words ......the gas pump recently. Get used to it. Oil prices have soared from $11 a barrel in December...else? - Iraq, economists predict that oil prices could rise as high as $30 a barrel by...beginning of next year. Behind these higher oil prices are a combination of forces, from the...

Drop in oil prices to be short lived: ADB

Xinhua News Agency;  September 16, 2008 ;     491 words ...Drop in oil prices to be short lived: ADB MANILA, Sept...prolonged period of high and volatile oil prices that will temper growth and force governments...ADB) on Tuesday. The recent drop in oil prices will be short lived and the region's...

LOWER oil prices are unambiguously good news for the economies of the...

Sunday Business (London, England);  November 18, 2001 ;     392 words ...LOWER oil prices are unambiguously good news for the economies of the developed world. Falling oil prices transfer income from producers to consumers...and fiscal policies, we would see lower oil prices as the third tailwind helping to generate...

FED IGNORES RISING OIL PRICES AT OUR PERIL.(Editorial)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  September 13, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Suffering from a touch of deja vu? Oil prices have more than tripled since the end...1990. On each of those occasions, when oil prices also roughly tripled, inflation duly...although there is no cause for panic about oil prices, this view looks terribly complacent...

No relief from high oil prices...

UK Weekly;  November 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......surges toward $100 per barrel... * Oil prices have continued to rise in recent...prices to remain high... * Nominal oil prices have now risen around 60% over the last year, and in real terms, oil prices are at their highest levels since...

Stimulus Unlikely to Counter Rise in Oil Prices

The Washington Post;  January 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ......could use a boost, the recent surge in oil prices is having the opposite effect. Even though...S. economy out of recession, climbing oil prices since September have had all the negative...The more-than-$30-a-barrel increase in oil prices over the past five months is like a...

OIL: PRICES TO REMAIN HIGH, EXPERTS SAY.

Europe Energy;  September 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ......on September 21 that high and volatile oil prices pose a significant risk to the global...economist, Raghuram Rajan, said: Higher oil prices are a clear and present danger. Recent...pressures were being stoked up by high oil prices. To date, the impact of higher oil ...

The impact of higher oil prices

Norges Bank. Inflation Report;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Since the February Inflation Report oil prices have risen by about USD 5. High oil prices represent an important risk to the recovery...a fall in real income as a result of higher oil prices. Growth is influenced through lower supply...