michael a. lebowitz wrote: > Does anyone have a good source on the Euro price of oil in the last few years?
by coincidence, I calculated the following: the columns are: (1) date (2) US$ price of crude: Spot Oil Price: West Texas Intermediate (3) US$/Euro (4) Euro price of crude (= (2)/(3)) (1) (2) (3) (4) 2006-01-01 65.510 1.2126 54.02 2006-02-01 61.630 1.1940 51.62 2006-03-01 62.900 1.2028 52.29 2006-04-01 69.690 1.2273 56.78 2006-05-01 70.940 1.2767 55.57 2006-06-01 70.960 1.2661 56.05 2006-07-01 74.410 1.2681 58.68 2006-08-01 73.050 1.2810 57.03 2006-09-01 63.870 1.2722 50.20 2006-10-01 58.880 1.2617 46.67 2006-11-01 59.370 1.2888 46.07 2006-12-01 62.030 1.3205 46.97 2007-01-01 54.570 1.2993 42.00 2007-02-01 59.260 1.3080 45.31 2007-03-01 60.560 1.3246 45.72 2007-04-01 63.970 1.3513 47.34 2007-05-01 63.460 1.3518 46.94 2007-06-01 67.480 1.3421 50.28 2007-07-01 74.180 1.3726 54.04 2007-08-01 72.390 1.3626 53.13 2007-09-01 79.930 1.3910 57.46 2007-10-01 86.200 1.4233 60.56 and here are the percentage changes in the price of crude over the previous 12 months: date in $ in Euros 2006-01-01 33.55% 41.45% 2006-02-01 25.06% 33.66% 2006-03-01 14.68% 23.87% 2006-04-01 27.30% 32.62% 2006-05-01 35.32% 34.77% 2006-06-01 23.21% 19.13% 2006-07-01 23.72% 18.54% 2006-08-01 11.72% 7.62% 2006-09-01 -2.63% -6.54% 2006-10-01 -5.76% -10.59% 2006-11-01 1.82% -7.09% 2006-12-01 4.28% -6.45% 2007-01-01 -18.27% -25.18% 2007-02-01 -3.92% -13.04% 2007-03-01 -3.79% -13.44% 2007-04-01 -8.56% -18.19% 2007-05-01 -11.14% -16.86% 2007-06-01 -5.03% -10.86% 2007-07-01 -0.31% -8.23% 2007-08-01 -0.91% -7.08% 2007-09-01 22.43% 13.50% 2007-10-01 38.12% 26.07% the last numbers are crucial: from 10/2006 to 10/2007 the price of oil rose about 12 percentage points faster in US$ than in Euros. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
