Oil sets records for the third day in a row

Oil prices for the third day in a row set new records. On the New York commodity exchange, oil prices on the night of Thursday to Friday rose to $ 53 per barrel, then a little decreased, but the final significance was still the largest in the history of the merchants of oil contracts.

According to the results of trading on Thursday, in New York, for a barrel of oil Light Sweet, they gave $ 52.67, which is 65 cents higher than the final value of the environment. The barrel of the Brent mixture on the London IPE went up more significantly - by 91 centers, up to $ 48.9, reports Reuters.

Prices rose to new heights against the background of messages from Nigeria. There, the oil workers of Royal Dutch/Shell unexpectedly began a strike, saying that they would support a national protest, which will begin on October 11. The strike of oil workers began earlier, as they decided to quickly respond to intentions to reduce jobs. The market expects that oil supply from Nigeria, which is the largest African exporter of Black Gold, will soon be interrupted, although there is no official data about this.

Traditionally, the consequences of the Hurricane of the Hurricane “Ivan”, which had carried out over the Mexican Gulf and the state of Florida, which had done significant damage to the production and import of oil to the south of the United States, are put on the market.