barrel
Example Sentences
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Pipeline stocks don’t have much exposure to oil prices, but crude’s 15% drop to less than $60 a barrel still sent a chill through the sector.
From Barron's
“Geopolitical risk runs counter to the International Energy Agency forecast that supply will outstrip demand by 3.8 million barrels a day in 2026.”
It was not exactly shooting fish in a barrel, but close.
From Barron's
Even so, benchmark U.S. crude futures’ 2.4% gain Monday, to $58.08 a barrel, left them trading at one of their lowest values of the year.
Crude stocks were expected to have fallen by 2.6 million barrels, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of analysts.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
