"Yesterday was such an important day and has determined how the market is going to go in the next couple of months. The all time high settle showed that the Brent market is very bullish, and today's open was even more bullish."
-A London-based broker talking to Platts about record IPE Brent futures levels.

Prices are "going high in the futures market, it has nothing to do with the availability of crude and OPEC is not the reason for it so they cannot do anything."
A senior OPEC delegate discussing record high crude futures prices with Platts

"The total amount of funds to be raised in the offering is $10.4 billion, which makes Rosneft's IPO the fifth largest in the world and the largest among Russian companies."
Rosneft statement following it's 1.126 billion share issue which it hopes will rasie a total of $10.4 billion at $7.55 a share
 

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