"If for some reason prices do go up later today, I think that it can't really go beyond the $74 mark as players will, as yesterday, sell out their longs because there's no reason for prices to be up there. If there was a rally I'd be a seller of it."
- One London trader speculating on how IPE Brent futures will perform on Friday.

"As long as the Iranians have a sense that they are negotiating with the Europeans ad referendum (needing referral for a final decision), and what they discuss with them will have to be discussed with the Americans, and then come back again to them, I am not sure they will put everything on the table."
- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.