The overall postures of the U.S. dollar index and crude oil remain underlying bearish factors for the raw commodity sector.
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Another important thing to look at is reserve life index, or how many years of oil remain in proven reserves, at current production rates.
As long as oil prices remain buoyant, economic heterodoxy may do little visible damage.
Oil prices remain the key risk factor, but we expect them to remain broadly flat throughout the year.
However, crude oil prices remain in a near-term uptrend and are just seeing a corrective and profit-taking pullback Monday.
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Iran, Kuwait, and other OPEC countries similarly want to see oil prices remain strong, to meet their spending requirements.
Foreign oil prices remain high and analysts say the standoff with Iran over nuclear development is one of the factors.
However, crude oil prices remain in a near-term uptrend and are just seeing a corrective and profit-taking pullback Friday morning.
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Shares of the company have climbed more than 14% in the past three months as oil prices remain near their highs.
It is still climbing and prices in the futures market imply that oil will remain dear for several years to come.
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So even if oil prices remain below their 2006 levels, nobody expects the bottom to fall out of the economy this year.
Overall, crude oil prices remain trapped in a wide, sideways trading range, but are now in the bottom portion of that range.
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High international oil prices remain a boon for Venezuela, underpinning its economy.
Overall, crude oil prices remain trapped in a wide, sideways trading range.
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However, crude oil prices remain in a near-term uptrend and are so far just seeing a corrective and profit-taking pullback early this week.
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China is rapidly expanding its coal and natural gas generating capacity and will accelerate the process if oil prices remain high, Littell says.
So the conclusion is that Russia's growth is likely to slow down, even as oil prices remain high, unless Russia carries out institutional reform.
The U.S. dollar index and crude oil will remain two important outside market forces that will have a daily impact on the precious metals markets.
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If oil prices remain at the levels they are at currently for a considerable amount of time, this would increase BPs revenues for the year.
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In the agricultural sector, rice and wheat prices are still well off their previous highs, Newland explained, while natural gas and oil prices remain subdued.
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The idea is increasingly popular as oil prices remain historically high.
So we are intent on ensuring that Iraq's oil resources remain under national Iraqi control, with the proceeds made available to support Iraqis in all parts of the country.
But as this column discussed a month ago, U.S. production is booming as new technologies unlock vast deposits of oil and gas trapped in porous shale, and oil prices remain strong.
He magnanimously excuses The Economist's poor record of predicting the price of oil: our suggestion in 1999 that oil would remain dirt cheap was conventional wisdom at the time, he says soothingly.
In other words 10 people in an office will spend a couple of million pondering some maps while the billions from the sale of the worlds Oil Fields remain safe in the bank.
Crude oil prices remain in a near-term uptrend.
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Economic growth is predicated on the expectation that oil supplies will remain reliable and cheap.
Oil prices will remain high because of the limited increases in supply, though more gains will come.
This strained logic will only delay development of a coherent energy policy, so oil prices will remain volatile.
We expect the oil price to remain elevated going forward driven by a recovering global economy and growing demand from emerging countries.
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