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Crude Oil Price Charts Compare 2014 to 2008

By Kyle Anderson, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @KyleAndersonMM • December 31, 2014

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Oil hit its lowest point in more than five years this week, continuing 2014's huge drop. This WTI crude oil price chart and Brent oil chart show how large the oil crash of 2014 has been.

In June, WTI oil futures traded as high as $101.33 per barrel. This week they touched $52.51.

crude oil price chartThat's a drop of 48.2% in just six months.

Brent oil futures have followed the same pattern. In June, Brent traded near $111 per barrel. Just six months later, Brent was down 48.6%, below $57 per barrel.

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Brent oilAnd while both of these declines have been steep, they pale in comparison to the drop from 2008.

From July 2008 through December 2008, WTI oil crashed more than 71%. At its 2008 peak, WTI traded for more than $140 per barrel. By the end of December, WTI was priced near $40.

As these oil price charts indicate, a very similar crash occurred for Brent oil in 2008 as well.

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The crashes of 2008 and 2014 are the two biggest one-year drops in oil prices since futures contracts began trading in the 1980s.

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Robert grant
Robert grant
7 years ago

How can industry complain about the prices of oil? When it was $60 . a barrel fuel at the pump was $110
Per liter now at $33. A barrel it's $105. A liter the industry is far better off today than two years ago. Go figure ????

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