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November 19, 2014

Middle East violence pushes oil prices up
New York (UPI) Nov 19, 2014
Violence in northern Iraq, coupled with word of continued pitfalls in Libya, helped push the price of oil into higher territory in Wednesday trading. Brent crude oil prices for January delivery moved closer to the $80 per barrel mark in early Wednesday trading. At least five people died as the result of a suicide bombing Wednesday in Erbil, the capital of the semiautonomous Kurdish north of Iraq. While no group had issued a claim of responsibility, the region has seen an uptick of violen ... read more

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