رادار الشاشة
29-01-2011, Sat 7:15 PM
من msnbc.com
انتاج مصر من النفط 700 الف برميل فقط. لكن ايضا هناك تخوف بسبب امدادات قناة السويس, يستغلها المضاربون لرفع اسعار النفط. بسبب ارتفاع تكلفة الشحن عند اخذ طرق بحرية أخرى.
ارتفع النفط امس 2 دولار في نصف ساعة بمجرد خروج الناس للشارع, وفي النهاية ارتفعت الاسعار 4 دولارات
لنرى كيف يكون افتتاح اسواق النفط القادم!
Oil prices surged Friday as traders bid up prices on concerns that widening protests against the government in Egypt could spread across the Middle East to major oil producers such as Libya and Saudi Arabia. The price spike also was fueled by concerns that any interruption of shipping through the Suez Canal could add 6,000 miles to some oil shipments and raise the cost of crude oil delivery, analysts said.
Prices shot up about $2 a barrel in less than half an hour as thousands of protestors took to the streets and clashed with police, burned cars and stormed government buildings in Egypt. By the end of the trading session oil prices were about 4 percent higher,
at a bit over $89 a barrel.
Stock prices fell sharply, while anxious traders bid up the value of the dollar and gold, typically safe-haven investments.
The uprising in Egypt follows protests this month that forced out the president of Tunisia, who fled to Saudi Arabia. Anti-government protests also have rocked Lebanon and Yemen.
"This looks like the Arab world's version of the flash crash," said Daniel Senor, a fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. "If you look among the inputs that are fueling this revolt, including food prices and food shortages, I don't know how you fix that quickly."
Despite market concerns about the potential impact of the widening unrest, there appeared to be no immediate threat to oil supplies.
"Egypt doesn’t mean much on its own in terms of crude oil production or exports," said Tom Kloza, editor & publisher of OPIS, which tracks oil prices.
"It is of course the key country for the operation of the Suez Canal which cuts 5,000-6,000 miles off the voyages of many European-bound tankers," he said. "But the real worries today are about violence and unrest spreading eastward into the Arabian Gulf. Whether one is a fan of (Egyptian President Hosni) Mubarak or not, one can at least suggest that it was a stable country on the edge of a region which has long been unstable."
الى اي حد تتوقعون ستتأثر الاسعار؟
انتاج مصر من النفط 700 الف برميل فقط. لكن ايضا هناك تخوف بسبب امدادات قناة السويس, يستغلها المضاربون لرفع اسعار النفط. بسبب ارتفاع تكلفة الشحن عند اخذ طرق بحرية أخرى.
ارتفع النفط امس 2 دولار في نصف ساعة بمجرد خروج الناس للشارع, وفي النهاية ارتفعت الاسعار 4 دولارات
لنرى كيف يكون افتتاح اسواق النفط القادم!
Oil prices surged Friday as traders bid up prices on concerns that widening protests against the government in Egypt could spread across the Middle East to major oil producers such as Libya and Saudi Arabia. The price spike also was fueled by concerns that any interruption of shipping through the Suez Canal could add 6,000 miles to some oil shipments and raise the cost of crude oil delivery, analysts said.
Prices shot up about $2 a barrel in less than half an hour as thousands of protestors took to the streets and clashed with police, burned cars and stormed government buildings in Egypt. By the end of the trading session oil prices were about 4 percent higher,
at a bit over $89 a barrel.
Stock prices fell sharply, while anxious traders bid up the value of the dollar and gold, typically safe-haven investments.
The uprising in Egypt follows protests this month that forced out the president of Tunisia, who fled to Saudi Arabia. Anti-government protests also have rocked Lebanon and Yemen.
"This looks like the Arab world's version of the flash crash," said Daniel Senor, a fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. "If you look among the inputs that are fueling this revolt, including food prices and food shortages, I don't know how you fix that quickly."
Despite market concerns about the potential impact of the widening unrest, there appeared to be no immediate threat to oil supplies.
"Egypt doesn’t mean much on its own in terms of crude oil production or exports," said Tom Kloza, editor & publisher of OPIS, which tracks oil prices.
"It is of course the key country for the operation of the Suez Canal which cuts 5,000-6,000 miles off the voyages of many European-bound tankers," he said. "But the real worries today are about violence and unrest spreading eastward into the Arabian Gulf. Whether one is a fan of (Egyptian President Hosni) Mubarak or not, one can at least suggest that it was a stable country on the edge of a region which has long been unstable."
الى اي حد تتوقعون ستتأثر الاسعار؟