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Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell to a five-month low below $106 as oil companies prepared to resume production from rigs closed by Hurricane Gustav. Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Total SA and ConocoPhillips said they were inspecting offshore U.S. Gulf platforms today. Oil, down more than $40 from its July record, dropped as Gustav spared U.S. Gulf states the destruction caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. ``The absence of serious structural damage from Gustav when the market was braced for the worst has caused prices to turn decisively downwards,'' said Christopher Bellew, a senior broker at Bache Commodities Ltd. in London. ``As technical selling takes hold, it looks likely we'll breach $100.'' Crude oil for October delivery fell as low as $105.46 a barrel, down 8.7 percent from the close of Aug. 29 on the New York Mercantile Exchange and the lowest since April 4. The contract traded at $106.97 at 9:47 a.m. London time. Today's trading is combined with yesterday's for settlement purposes because of the Labor Day holiday in the U.S. Shell, Europe's largest oil company, plans to redeploy a limited number of workers to its offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said in a statement. Louisiana refineries shut down by Hurricane Gustav may take about 10 days to resume operations because of a lack of power, stunting fuel production at a time when regional gasoline inventories are at a 10-month low. `Minor Damage' ConocoPhillips, the second-largest U.S. refiner, said its 247,000 barrel-a-day Alliance refinery in southern Louisiana sustained ``minor damage'' and a complete assessment, including a flyover inspection of the refinery, would be made later today, spokesman Bill Tanner said by telephone. Workers from more than 70 percent of the platforms and rigs in the Gulf were evacuated as Gustav approached, according to the U.S. Minerals Management Service. About 1.3 million barrels a day of oil and 7.06 billion cubic feet of gas was shut, all of the area's offshore oil output and 95 percent of gas production. ``It's a big surprise that Gustav wasn't as powerful as people thought,'' Jonathan Kornafel, a director at Hudson Energy Capital in Singapore, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. ``We've seen this before with hurricanes, where the market comes off strongly once the storm makes landfall.'' Storm Downgrade Prices jumped to $118 yesterday as Gustav crossed the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 4 hurricane, the second-highest ranking. The storm eased as it neared shore southwest of New Orleans. The system was subsequently downgraded to Category 2. Gustav's winds slowed to about 45 miles per hour (120 kilometers per hour) at 1 a.m. local time, the National Hurricane Center said. The center of Gustav, now downgraded to a tropical storm, was about 30 miles west of Alexandria, Louisiana, and may cross into northeastern Texas tomorrow. As much as 20 percent of oil and gas production that was shut because of Hurricane Gustav may be restored by this weekend, Louisiana's Governor Bobby Jindal said yesterday at a press conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Brent crude oil for October settlement fell as much as $5.27, or 4.8 percent, to $104.14 a barrel on the ICE Futures Europe Exchange. It was at $104.95 at 9:30 a.m. London time. The contract had risen as high as $110.45 today. |
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Oil, Gas Fall as Hurricane Gustav Weakens, Easing Damage Fears By Grant Smith and Alexander Kwiatkowski Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell to its lowest in more than four months after Hurricane Gustav weakened, easing concern of widespread damage to drilling rigs and refineries. Gustav has been downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane, the second-weakest of the five strength levels, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said in its latest advisory. Preparations for the storm closed 96 percent of offshore oil production and about 10 percent of U.S. refining capacity. ``The latest forecast shows that while Gustav is perfectly aimed at the heart of U.S. oil and gas production, it's not quite as strong as was initially feared,'' said Mike Wittner, Societe Generale's London-based head of oil research. ``The refining system is not as stretched this time round, compared with Rita and Katrina.'' Crude oil for October delivery fell as much as $4.83, or 4.2 percent, to $110.63 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, and traded at $111.05 at 3:24 p.m. London time. It earlier rose as much as 2.2 percent to $118. The contract is at its lowest since April 11, having lost 25 percent from the record of $147.27 a barrel reached on July 11. Natural gas for October delivery fell 46.6 cents, or 5.9 percent, to $7.477 per million British thermal units at 3:38 p.m. London time. Gulf Coast refineries have cut at least 1.56 million barrels a day of production, about 9.8 percent of the U.S. total. Gustav, packing winds of 115 miles an hour (240 kilometers an hour) was 75 miles south of New Orleans at 10 a.m. New York, according to the National Hurricane Center. Workers Evacuated Still, Gustav is two categories below the peak strength reached by Hurricane Katrina, which sent oil prices to records after wrecking refineries around New Orleans three years ago. Katrina's intensity was greatest over the gulf, where it damaged rigs, platforms and undersea oil and gas pipelines. It then weakened to a Category 3 hurricane before reaching land. Workers from more than 70 percent of the platforms and rigs in the gulf have been evacuated as Gustav approaches, the U.S. Minerals Management Service said in a statement on its Web site yesterday. About 1.25 million barrels a day of oil and 6.09 billion cubic feet of gas have been shut, or more than 96 percent of offshore oil output and 82 percent of gas production. The Gulf of Mexico normally produces about 1.3 million barrels of oil and an estimated 7.4 billion cubic feet of gas a day, according to the Minerals Management Service, part of the U.S. Interior Department. Nymex electronic trading opened early today to allow traders to respond to Gustav. Trades will be recorded as part of the Sept. 2 session because of today's U.S. Labor Day holiday. Brent crude oil for October settlement was down $2.46, or 2.2 percent at $111.59 barrel on the ICE Futures Europe Exchange. To contact the reporters on this story: Grant Smith in London at gsmith52@bloomberg.net; Alexander Kwiatkowski in London at akwiatkowsk2@bloomberg.net |
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Oil Falls on Report Gustav Won't Intensify Before Striking Land By Grant Smith Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell, reversing earlier gains, on a forecast that Hurricane Gustav is unlikely to intensify in the Gulf of Mexico before striking land. Category 3 Hurricane Gustav, the most powerful system to hit the region since Rita and Katrina in 2005, is unlikely to strengthen before hitting the coast later today, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said in its latest advisory. Preparations for the storm closed 96 percent of offshore oil production and about 10 percent of U.S. refining capacity. ``The latest forecast show that while Gustav is perfectly aimed at the heart of U.S. oil and gas production, it's not as quite strong as was initially feared,'' said Mike Wittner, Societe Generale's London-based head of oil research. ``The refining system is not as stretched this time round compared with Rita and Katrina.'' Crude oil for October delivery fell as much as $1.85, or 1.6 percent, to $113.61 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, and traded at $113.93, down $1.53, at 12:48 p.m. London time. It earlier rose as much as 2.2 percent to $118. Gulf Coast refineries have cut at least 1.56 million barrels a day of production, about 9.8 percent of the U.S. total. Still, Gustav is two categories below the peak strength reached by Hurricane Katrina, which sent oil prices to records after wrecking refineries around New Orleans three years ago. Katrina's intensity was greatest over the gulf, where it wrecked rigs, platforms and undersea oil and gas pipelines. It then weakened to a Category 3 hurricane before reaching land. Workers Evacuated Workers from more than 70 percent of the platforms and rigs in the Gulf have been evacuated as Gustav approaches, the U.S. Minerals Management Service said in a statement on its Web site yesterday. About 1.25 million barrels a day of oil and 6.09 billion cubic feet of gas have been shut, or more than 96 percent of offshore oil output and 82 percent of gas production. The Gulf of Mexico normally produces about 1.3 million barrels of oil and an estimated 7.4 billion cubic feet of gas a day, according to the Minerals Management Service, part of the U.S. Interior Department. Nymex electronic trading opened early today to allow traders to respond to Gustav. Trades will be recorded as part of the Sept. 2 session because of today's U.S. Labor Day holiday. Brent crude oil for October settlement was down $1.71, or 1.5 percent at $112.34 barrel on the ICE Futures Europe Exchange. |
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01-Sep-2008 10:52
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no worries.... i am investor, not daily trader or contra players...
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01-Sep-2008 10:11
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All these commodity counters are stock equities. Although climate change will push commodities higher, these equities instruments are still affected by the overall mkt sentiment. Unless you invest in commodities directly, then you will gain from this calamity of Gustav hurricane! Cheers! NV... | |||||||||||||
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01-Sep-2008 09:42
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Yoh, this burger responded the other way leh??? | |||||||||||||
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01-Sep-2008 08:17
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it's our show time baby. |
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U.S. Refineries Shut, Slow Operations as Hurricane Gustav Nears By Jordan Burke Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Refineries operated by Valero Energy Corp., ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp. are closing as Hurricane Gustav nears the U.S. Gulf Coast, where about 41 percent of U.S. refining capacity is located. At least eight refineries are shutting, taking with them about 1.56 million barrels a day of crude oil processing capacity, or 9.8 percent of the U.S. total. Another five refineries are operating at reduced rates. Gustav will make landfall along the Gulf Coast sometime tomorrow as a ``major'' hurricane, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. The storm was about 215 miles (346 kilometers) from the mouth of the Mississippi River at 5 p.m. Miami time and was packing winds of 115 miles an hour. The storm, which may reach Louisiana as early as midday tomorrow, is forecast to strengthen as it crosses the Gulf. Crude oil for October delivery rose $1.67, or 1.5 percent, to $117.13 a barrel at 4:56 p.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices are up 20 percent this year. Gasoline for October delivery gained 7.62 cents, or 2.7 percent, to $2.9304 a gallon on the exchange. Refineries in Texas and Louisiana can process 6.44 million barrels a day of oil, turning it into products including gasoline and diesel fuel. About 28 percent, or 2.36 million barrels a day, of the U.S. gasoline supply is produced along the Gulf Coast, according to the Energy Department. In 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita idled about 19 percent of U.S. refining capacity. Gulf Oil, Gas Production U.S. companies have idled 96 percent of Gulf of Mexico oil output and 82 percent of natural-gas production as Hurricane Gustav moves toward the region, the Minerals Management Service said in a statement on its Web site. Personnel from 86 offshore rigs and 518 production platforms have been evacuated. About 1.25 million barrels of daily oil output and 6.09 billion cubic feet of gas a day have been shut in the region. The Gulf of Mexico accounts for 26 percent of U.S. oil output and 14 percent of natural-gas production. The Gulf normally produces an estimated 1.3 million barrels of oil and 7.4 billion cubic feet of gas a day, according to the agency, part of the U.S. Interior Department. Valero, the largest U.S. refiner, is shutting down its St. Charles, Louisiana refinery, which can process 185,000 barrels per day. Valero's Port Arthur, Houston and Texas City, Texas refineries are running at reduced rates. Combined the plants can process about 572,000 barrels a day. Valero is based in San Antonio. Motiva, ConocoPhillips Motiva Enterprises LLC, a Houston-based joint venture of Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Saudi Arabia's state oil company, said it will shut its Norco, Louisiana, plant, which can process 236,400 barrels a day. Motiva will also reduce rates at its Convent refinery, which can process about 235,000 barrels a day, and its 285,000 barrel-a-day Port Arthur plant. ConocoPhillips, based in Houston, is shutting its Lake Charles, Louisiana, refinery, which can process 239,000 barrels a day, and its Alliance refinery in Belle Chase, Louisiana, which can process about 247,000 barrels per day. Houston-based Marathon Oil Corp. is shutting its Garyville, Louisiana, refinery, which can process about 256,000 barrels a day. El Dorado, Arkansas-based Murphy Oil Corp. shut its Meraux, Louisiana plant located near New Orleans. The refinery can process about 120,000 barrels a day. Chalmette Refining LLC, a joint venture between Irving, Texas-based ExxonMobil and Petroleos de Venezuela SA, is shutting its Chalmette, Louisiana location. The refinery can process about 193,000 barrels per day. Alon USA Energy Inc. based in Dallas, shut its Krotz Springs, Louisiana, which can process about 80,000 barrels a day. |
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Palm oil futures up as crude and vegoils lift Posted by Palm Oil HQ 1 day 23 hours ago Source: http://www.btimes.com.my View profile Added 1 day 23 hours ago - Malaysian crude palm oil futures soared 6.1 per cent yesterday, clawing back heavy losses earlier in the week, as strength in crude oil markets boosted global vegetable oil prices, traders said. Chicago soyoil gained 1.2 per cent in Asian trade while Dalian soyoil for January 2009 delivery jumped 2.4 per cent following oil’s $1-plus leap ahead of Tropical Storm Gustav in the United States. Palm oil has dropped about 14 per cent this year as high stocks and news of defaults from key buyers India and China has kept traders on tenterhooks. The benchmark November contract settled up RM150 to RM2,620 (US$772) per tonne. “Traders are short-covering ahead of the long weekend. The feeling is that crude oil will surge in the next few days and bring all the other vegetable oil markets with it,” said a leading trader. Malaysian financial markets will be closed on Monday to mark Independence day, which falls over the weekend. Other traded months rose between RM65 and RM135 ringgit. Overall volume stood at 12,797 lots of 25 tonnes each. But other traders said the market may fall further next week as demand shows some signs of cooling off amid forecasts that the high palm oil production cycle will continue way into November. Cargo surveyors Intertek Testing Services and Societe Generale de Surveillance will unveil palm export estimates for August on Tuesday. Leading industry analyst Dorab Mistry said early this week crude palm oil futures could slide as far as RM2,200 per tonne before triggering fresh demand, as ideal weather extends the main growing season. In the physical market in Malaysia, crude palm oil for delivery in August and September were offered at RM2,590/RM2,610 a tonne in the southern region. Trades were done between RM2,550 and RM2,600. |
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AFP - 1 hour 26 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Aug 31, 2008 (AFP) - - Killer Hurricane Gustav churned toward the US Gulf Coast Sunday where residents jammed highways on mandatory orders to evacuate New Orleans, still battered by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina catastrophe.
A slightly weakened Gustav -- still a dangerous Category 3 storm with winds near 125 miles (205 kilometers) per hour -- battered Cuba Sunday after claiming at least 81 lives in its tear across the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, desperate to avoid a replay of the 2005 Katrina catastrophe, ordered the city emptied on Sunday in the face of what he called "the storm of the century" and roads quickly filled with fleeing residents. In Cuba, Gustav tore off roofs, flattened buildings and plunged communities into darkness as it smashed through the Isle of Youth, then tore across mainland Cuba southwest of Havana, which has a population of more than two million. There were no immediate reported deaths in Cuba. The monster storm lost some of its punch in the process, with US officials downgrading it from four to three. At 1200 GMT, the US National Hurricane Center said Gustav's eye was about 375 miles (605 km) southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River, as the storm moved northwest about 16 mph (26 km/h) and was expected to strengthen a bit. "On this track Gustav will be moving across the central Gulf of Mexico today (Sunday) and make landfall on the northern Gulf coast on Monday," the NHC added, warning "an extremely dangerous storm surge of 18 to 25 feet (more than six meters) above normal tidal levels is expected near and to the east of where the center of Gustav crosses the northern Gulf Coast." Republican White House hopeful John McCain and his running-mate Sarah Palin said they would suspend their normal election campaign and visit to Mississippi to inspect preparations for Gustav's arrival. Major oil producers BP, ConocoPhillips and Shell on Thursday evacuated workers from their facilities in the Gulf where nearly a quarter of US crude oil installations are located. Cuban national television reported that the scene on the Isle of Youth was one of devastation after the monster storm ground its way across the low-lying island of fishing villages, factories and citrus farms. "The situation is very difficult," acknowledged Ana Delgado, president of the Municipal Defense Council there. "The damage is widespread." Homes were under water, warehouses toppled, and roads washed away on the Isle, state television said, adding there were some injuries though no immediate reports of deaths. More than 250,000 were evacuated from western parts of mainland Cuba before the storm hit near the town of Carraguao, 100 kilometers (62 miles) southwest of Havana, then crossed into the Gulf of Mexico, the Cuban weather service said. Used to fairly frequent smaller tropical storms, Havana residents ran around town Saturday gathering candles and food, boiling water and taping up windows. But the steady flow of updates on state television alarmed many. "Really, I just did not expect this -- it has been a long time since we have been hit by such a powerful hurricane, and this Gustav looks like it will be quite strong," retired actress Gliseria Farinas said in Havana. A key concern was for the crowded and charming colonial-era Old Havana, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site in 1982. Its fragile, centuries-old buildings are prone to cave-ins after heavy rains, though most of Cuba's housing stock is old and fragile. Cuban authorities have said that in Havana alone there are 1,000 buildings in "critical condition". These include about 8,000 structures housing some 26,000 people, many of them in Old Havana. Earlier Gustav's path of destruction left 66 dead and 10 missing in Haiti. In neighboring Dominican Republic, the death toll stood at eight, while in Jamaica the toll stood at seven, with many thousands displaced. |
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Oil prices lose steam as Gustav threatens Gulf of Mexico
NEW YORK : Oil prices lost steam Friday as traders watched a deadly storm churning toward the Gulf of Mexico, threatening US oil and gas operations. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in October, fell 13 cents to close at 115.46 dollars per barrel, reversing early gains. Brent North Sea crude for October settled later in London, slipping 12 cents to 114.05 dollars. Prices closed off earlier sharp gains as traders faced a three-day weekend ahead of Monday's Labor Day holiday Monday. "The coming storm remains the market's primary focus," said Mike Fitzpatrick, analyst at MF Global. Gustav, which regained hurricane strength Friday was expected to cross Cuba on Saturday and enter the southern Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, the hurricane center said. "Gustav may hit anywhere between Brownsville, Texas, and the Florida panhandle although most models show landfall on the Louisiana coast, somewhat west of New Orleans, late Monday or early Tuesday as a category-three storm," Fitzpatrick said. "Needless to say, market participants will spend a very nervous weekend as price action suggests." Oil prices had closed sharply lower on Thursday as traders discounted the threat of the storm but on Friday, Newedge energy analyst Ken Hasegawa warned: "We (still) have to worry about the hurricane's effect on this market." Anxiety also grew on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating arrival in the Gulf of Mexico and authorities in New Orleans were planning a possible mandatory evacuation to prevent a repeat of the devastation and deaths wreaked in 2005. Authorities in Louisiana and Mississippi have already declared states of emergency before Gustav's expected landfall late Monday. US President George W. Bush on Friday declared a state of emergency in Louisiana, freeing up federal aid. Several oil companies have evacuated workers from their installations in the Gulf of Mexico, where a quarter of US crude oil is produced. US officials are prepared to tap the government's strategic oil reserve if Gustav damages oil installations in the Gulf, a Department of Energy spokeswoman said Friday. "We're standing ready to use every available authority to provide supplies of energy in the event of a disruption," spokeswoman Bethany Shively told AFP. "The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a key safeguard that we have to provide protection for the American people during the event of a severe disruption of oil supply," she said. The reserve currently holds an emergency supply of 707 million barrels of crude oil, she said. The coordinated effort stands in sharp contrast to the botched response to Katrina, which smashed poorly built levees in New Orleans, destroying tens of thousands of homes and killing nearly 1,500 people in the region. Meanwhile, the eighth tropical storm of the hurricane season, dubbed Hanna, was churning in the Atlantic Friday. - AFP /ls |
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Crude Oil Rises a Third Day on Storm Threat in Gulf of Mexico By Grant Smith and Christian Schmollinger Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Crude Oil rose for a third day on forecasts Tropical Storm Gustav will strengthen as it enters the Gulf of Mexico, home to 26 percent of U.S. production. Gustav is expected to return to hurricane status before reaching Gulf platforms, according to Jim Rouiller, a senior energy meteorologist with Planalytics Inc., a forecaster based in Pennsylvania. U.S. gasoline inventories probably fell a fifth week, dropping 2.45 million barrels, according to a Bloomberg survey before today's Energy Department report. ``The threat of storms like Gustav will prevent oil prices falling further, so we see the market supported above $110 until the end of the hurricane season,'' said Ingrid Angermann, an economist at Dresdner Bank AG in Frankfurt. Crude oil for October delivery rose as much as $2.26, or 1.9 percent, to $118.53 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was trading at $118.13 at 1:40 p.m. London time. Prices are up 63 percent from a year ago. Futures have dropped 21 percent from a record $147.27 a barrel reached on July 11. Yesterday, oil rose $1.16, or 1 percent, to settle at $116.27 a barrel. OPEC, the producer of 42 percent of the world's oil, should maintain output when it meets in Vienna next month to help curb prices, International Energy Agency Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said. ``We wish producers will maintain the current level of production,'' Tanaka told Bloomberg News in an interview at an oil conference in Stavanger, Norway. ``The current price level is putting a burden on the global economy.'' Dollar Drop The dollar fell from a six-month high against the euro, bolstering the appeal of commodities as a hedge. The dollar declined to $1.4764 per euro at 1:16 p.m. in London from $1.4653 in New York yesterday, when it touched $1.4571, the strongest since Feb. 14. Gustav was about 80 miles (125 kilometers) west of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, and forecast to head into the central Gulf of Mexico by Aug. 31, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 5 a.m. Miami time. Gustav has the potential to grow to a Category 4 hurricane with winds of at least 131 miles per hour by the time it enters the Gulf, said Planalytics's Rouiller, whose clients include oil companies. Offshore fields in the Gulf of Mexico accounted for 26 percent of total U.S. crude production and 12 percent of natural gas output in April, according to data on the Web site of the government's Energy Information Administration. Shell, Transocean Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Transocean Inc., the world's largest offshore oil driller, have started to scale back operations in the area before the storm approaches. U.S. crude-oil inventories probably rose probably rose 1.1 million barrels last week from 305.9 million, according to the median of responses by five analysts. The Energy Department is scheduled to release its weekly report today at 10:35 a.m. in Washington. Brent crude oil for October settlement rose as much as $1.35 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $115.98 a barrel on London's ICE Futures Europe exchange. It was at $115.70 a barrel at 11:53 a.m. London time. For Related News: News on oil markets: NI OILMARKET <GO> News on oil inventories: TNI OIL INV <GO> |
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25-Aug-2008 18:11
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dun worry on the red, today is XD for this burger. a normal response fr public loh. 1 cts div also jadi loh. |
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25-Aug-2008 17:10
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Today result drop to 0.625. If oil keep on going up may be this counter can really fly to 70 cent or 80 cent easy. But oil dropped. So this counter is oil play. | |||||||||||||
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crude oil price drop to 114.59. So see monday will it drop. See who prediction is right no point fighting. As crude oil drop golden agri also drop. When oil price up golden agri also up. So base on it think it will go down. But may be people just want to get the dividend it will not drop who know? So monday we will see the result. For me guess is it will drop some point down. | |||||||||||||
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23-Aug-2008 08:50
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you will see 70 cents, and back to 80 cents "easily".. | |||||||||||||
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will drop.... how come. think will still rise bah. cos oil prise still not settle down yet ... rite ? some more high vol | |||||||||||||
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22-Aug-2008 23:52
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crude oil drop start to drop. $120 - > 118.04. Be prepare there will plunge on monday for this counter. | |||||||||||||
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