61.   While oil traders were focused on short-term prospects, stock market investors looked to economic conditions and the outlook for corporate profits next year.

62.   Why not simply let quota violations persist while things are good rather than spook oil traders with squabbling, only to end up doing nothing.

63.   Paul Hornsnell, an analyst at the Oxford Energy Institute, said oil traders are betting the price slump will hasten an OPEC agreement to pull back on production.

64.   Petrolimex was the biggest oil trader in Vietnam before the merger, the News said.

65.   A senior bunker oil trader for the Norwegian state oil company Statoil has been arrested on charges of embezzlement, the company said Tuesday,

66.   But most of all, edible oil traders in India have grown accustomed to the profitable business possible with palm oil.

67.   By not bidding up prices sharply, oil traders would be betting that fighting will not threaten key oil producers such as Kuwait or Saudi Arabia.

68.   He just returned from Houston, Texas, where he attended a conference of oil traders discussing the impact of oil prices on the economies of developing countries.

69.   It was the first time on top of the world for the oil trader from Geneva.

70.   New York markets were closed for the Thanksgiving holiday, but oil traders there had pushed the price higher on Wednesday.