Tag: diesel price

• Thursday, March 7th 2013 - 06:42 UTC

  Cash-short Petrobras shares surge following raise in diesel prices

  

  Brazil’s Petrobras shares surged in Wednesday trading after the company surprised investors with a 5% increase in domestic diesel wholesale prices. The latest increase helps offset investor disappointment with January's lower-than-expected jump in gasoline and diesel prices, which had pushed Petrobras's shares to a seven-year low in recent sessions.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2012 - 00:50 UTC

  Where’s the cheapest to ‘fill her up’? Venezuela: 12.8 US cents a liter of petrol

  

  Venezuela, the latest entry as full member of Mercosur has the cheapest petrol price in the world, 8 pennies per liter, (1 £ trading at 1.59 dollars on 22 August) according to the latest report from UK website, “This is money”, based on a research from Evans Halshaw.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 19:44 UTC

  China cuts retail gasoline prices 5.5% to reflect cheaper oil and boost the economy

  

  China, the world's second-biggest oil user, will reduce gasoline and diesel prices by the most since 2008 after global crude costs slumped. State-controlled retail gasoline prices will fall by 530 Yuan (83 dollars) a metric ton and diesel will be cut by 510 Yuan, the National Development and Reform Commission, NDRC, the nation's top economic planner, said on its website last week.