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Oil Falls Below $97 on Mild Ike Damage

Posted Sep 15, 08 7:14 AM CDT in US Business 

(AP) – Oil prices fell below $97 a barrel today, after Hurricane Ike inflicted minimal damage to oil installations on the Texas coast. Light, sweet crude for October delivery declined $4.39 to $96.79 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by noon in Europe, after finishing at $101.18 on Friday. Federal officials said yesterday that the storm destroyed only about 10 of the Gulf's 3,800 oil and gas platforms.

"Market sentiment is decidedly bearish, with all these concerns about developed countries going into recession or a serious slowdown impacting oil demand," said one analyst. Even reports of militant attacks on Nigeria's oil infrastructure couldn't spark a rally, but a weakening dollar did stop the decline. In other Nymex trading, heating oil futures fell 13.31 cents to $2.806 a gallon, while gasoline prices dropped 18.01 cents to $2.59 a gallon

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Shell gas station employee Dan Bajada changes the price of regular gas below $4 in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008, for the first time since 2007.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
In this June 26, 2008 file photo, an oil well pump jack is shown working as cars and trucks roll along a stretch of road in Coalinga, Calif.   (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, file)
In this June 27, 2008 file photo, a person pulls a gas pump from his vehicle after filling his tank in Philadelphia.   (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
Marathon's Texas City refinery is shown in Texas City, Texas as Hurricane Ike approaches the Texas Gulf Coast Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008.   (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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