28-03-2008
New fall for oil prices
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The worldwide price of oil fell during trading today.
In East Asian markets the cost of oil slid after it emerged that the consequences of a recent attack on an export pipeline in Iraq had not been as severe as initially expected.
"So far we haven't received any news of supply disruption from Iraq and if it's disrupted we'll buy from elsewhere,'' said Lin Keh Yen, a representative from Formosa Petrochemical, a Taiwan-based refiner of oil, in a report by Bloomberg. "There's oil everywhere, the Middle East, West Africa [and supply] isn't a problem."
During trading, the price of London's Brent crude fell to a per barrel rate of $104.21 (£52.17), a decline of $0.79. And, despite an increase to $108.22 per barrel in New York during trading yesterday, the price of US light crude has today fallen to $106.50, a decline of $1.08.