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BBC News
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Oil prices hit a record high above $135 a barrel on Thursday, having rocketed by more than $4 a barrel on Wednesday.
US light, sweet crude for July delivery reached $135.09, taking its gain for the year so far above 40%.
The main driver was the US c..
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BusinessWeek
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Skepticism about the Fed's $200 billion liquidity plan, and another record closing high for oil, dragged the market lower Wednesday
Major U.S. stock indexes closed lower Wednesday as trading turned more cautious after the market's huge rally in the pre..
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BBC News
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The price of crude oil has set a fresh record at $109.20, its fifth day in a row of historic highs.
New York light sweet crude fell back after hitting the high to trade at $108.75. London Brent set a record at $105.40, before retreating to $105.06...
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CNN
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Oil prices briefly surpassed $103 a barrel for the first time Friday as persistent weakness in the U.S. dollar and the prospect of lower interest rates attracted fresh money to the oil market. Light, sweet crude for April delivery on the New York Mercanti..
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MSNBC
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Boeing Co. blew past an order record it set two years ago, selling 1,413 commercial jets in 2007 while delivering 441 planes, its best showing in six years.
The single-aisle 737 remains its best-seller, followed by the new midsize, long-haul 787 Dreaml..
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CNN
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Oil prices were little-changed Friday as the market turned its attention to OPEC for signals on whether the cartel will raise production to ease record prices. Light, sweet crude for January delivery added 14 cents to $97.43 a barrel in electronic trading..
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CNN
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices set another record high Tuesday, jumping over $2 on fears of dwindling supplies in the United States, projections for strong worldwide demand and a falling U.S. dollar.
A suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed..
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www.reportonbusiness.com
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The seemingly unstoppable Canadian dollar surged to its highest level yet Wednesday, topping 106.17 cents (U.S.).
The record came just after 4 p.m., when official trading ended for the day. Officially, the dollar closed at 105.85 cents, up nearly a cen..
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BBC News
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The US dollar hit a new record low against the euro as investors sold the currency after the Federal Reserve's hefty interest rate cut.
The greenback dropped below the psychologically important $1.40 against the euro, deepening recent losses.
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New York Times
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The U.S. dollar stumbled to a record low against the euro and was mixed against other major currencies in European trading Thursday morning. Gold was steady.
The euro, in its second straight day of record-setting, hit an all-time high of $1.3927 Thursd..
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Washington Post
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The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index hit a record high Wednesday, marking a four-year recovery of U.S. stocks battered by the burst of the tech bubble, the collapse of Enron and WorldCom, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq...
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CNN
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With gas prices near record highs, experts say $4-a-gallon gasoline is just around the corner.
"I think it's going to happen," said Phil Flynn, a senior market analyst at Alaron Trading in Chicago. "Unless things change dramatically, I think we're goin..
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Washington Post
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Wall Street traded mostly higher Tuesday, pushing the Dow Jones industrials into record territory after a rise in home construction and a mild reading on consumer inflation encouraged investors to buy.
But the technology-dominated Nasdaq composite inde..
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BBC News
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Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has reported record annual profits of $25.36bn (£12.94bn) for 2006...
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Boston Herald
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Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. on Thursday posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company - $39.5 billion - even as earnings for the last quarter of 2006 declined 4 percent...
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Washington Post
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Several major record labels sued the operator of the Russian music Web site AllofMP3.com on Wednesday, claiming the company has been profiting by selling copies of music without their permission...
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CNN
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Shares of Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd., Australia's second-largest airline, plunged to a record low Monday after the company dropped its annual profit forecast due to rising fuel costs and tough competition. Virgin Blue shares closed down 21.62 percent, or 2..
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MSNBC
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The average price of regular gasoline on Maui island has reached a record $4 a gallon.
Wailuku is the first area in the nation tracked by AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report to hit the $4 mark. In the remote coastal town of Hana, the price is around $4.55 a..
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BusinessWeek
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Even as they cut a deal with MySpace for online music, the record labels are looking at other ways to make money online
On Apr. 3 the recording industry sent a clear signal about its changing attitude toward the Internet. The social networking site MyS..
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SF Gate
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Executives from San Ramon's Chevron Corp. and four other major oil companies defended their record profits Tuesday before a hostile Congress, led by Democrats who criticized the oil giants for doing little to cut gas prices or invest in renewable energy...
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