Pleasant thanksgiving holiday. The dow was able to squeeze out just enough of a game to notch a fresh record close on a holiday shortened day on wall street. But, the big story of the day was another tumble. And i do mean a tumble in the price of oil. Rattling the Energy Sector and keeping equities from making even more gains today. Todays big drop in crude prices. Comes after opec ministers voted on thursday not to cut production levels, despite lower demand and an oversupply on the market. Some analysts expected the cartel to cut production to help end a monthlong freefall in oil prices. They are down about 40 just since june. But no cuts came, and oil prices spilled like they had sprung a leak. Domestic crude off 10 today, tanking at 7. 54 to close at a 4 1 2 year low of 66. 15 a barrel. The International Bench mark brent fell another 2 to a fresh multiyear low of 70. 15 a barrel. Now with the price of oil plunging how bad could it get in the Energy Sectors . Bertha coombs has more.
Pleasant thanksgiving holiday. The dow was able to squeeze out just enough of a game to notch a fresh record close on a holiday shortened day on wall street. But, the big story of the day was another tumble. And i do mean a tumble in the price of oil. Rattling the Energy Sector and keeping equities from making even more gains today. Todays big drop in crude prices. Comes after opec ministers voted on thursday not to cut production levels, despite lower demand and an oversupply on the market. Some analysts expected the cartel to cut production to help end a monthlong freefall in oil prices. They are down about 40 just since june. But no cuts came, and oil prices spilled like they had sprung a leak. Domestic crude off 10 today, tanking at 7. 54 to close at a 4 1 2 year low of 66. 15 a barrel. The International Bench mark brent fell another 2 to a fresh multiyear low of 70. 15 a barrel. Now with the price of oil plunging how bad could it get in the Energy Sectors . Bertha coombs has more.
Pleasant thanksgiving holiday. The dow was able to squeeze out just enough of a game to notch a fresh record close on a holiday shortened day on wall street. But, the big story of the day was another tumble. And i do mean a tumble in the price of oil. Rattling the Energy Sector and keeping equities from making even more gains today. Todays big drop in crude prices. Comes after opec ministers voted on thursday not to cut production levels, despite lower demand and an oversupply on the market. Some analysts expected the cartel to cut production to help end a monthlong freefall in oil prices. They are down about 40 just since june. But no cuts came, and oil prices spilled like they had sprung a leak. Domestic crude off 10 today, tanking at 7. 54 to close at a 4 1 2 year low of 66. 15 a barrel. The International Bench mark brent fell another 2 to a fresh multiyear low of 70. 15 a barrel. Now with the price of oil plunging how bad could it get in the Energy Sectors . Bertha coombs has more.
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Now on bbc news, wednesday in parliament. Welcome to wednesday in parliament as the covid 19 death toll mounts and care homes, borisjohnson comes under pressure. Does the premise except the government was too slow to protect people in care homes . No, says the Prime Minister, striking and optimistic tone. The the british people got us through the first phase of this diverse and it will get us through the next one as well. How do politicians tackle an unprecedented crisis . There is not an hour that goes by where i do not question myself, agonise over decisions we are taking. At Prime Minister s question, Boris Johnson and keir starmer have clashed over the record of tackling coronavirus. The labour leader accused the Prime Minister of being too slow to protect care homes. Borisjohnson says although it had been hired a number of deaths was down. The Prime Minister said we need to rapidly reverse the awful epidemic in our ca re reverse the awful epidemic in our care homes but earlier thi