Even with Hurricane Dean taking aim at Cancun, Mexico, last August, Miguel Guillen wasn't worried. After all, he had insured his vacation.
Oil prices settled above $71 a barrel on Friday, buoyed by strong gains in gasoline futures in New York and the release of solid economic numbers.
The remnants of Hurricane Dean dumped heavy rain across central Mexico on Thursday, drenching mudslide-prone mountains as it pushed inland after slamming into the Gulf Coast as a Category 2 storm and killing four people.
Mexico gets storm's 1-2 punch
Oil prices fell Wednesday, adding to Tuesday's big decline, after the government reported a surprise rise in crude oil supplies.
Oil prices rose Wednesday, but remained below $70 a barrel after Hurricane Dean weakened as it swept into the Gulf of Mexico, reducing the threat of damage to oil installations.
Endeavour leaves space station
Space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the international space station a day early Sunday, as NASA kept a wary eye on Hurricane Dean.
Oil prices jumped Friday after the U.S. Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate to calm financial markets and on concerns Hurricane Dean could hit Gulf of Mexico installations.
CNNMoney: Oil drops below $70updated: Tue Aug 21 2007 05:32:00
Oil tumbled more than 2 percent Tuesday as Hurricane Dean weakened over the Yucatan Peninsula, easing concerns that the powerful storm would disrupt Mexican and U.S. oil operations.
Hurricane Dean burgeoned into a Category 5 storm -- capable of inflicting catastrophic damage when it makes landfall early Tuesday.
President Bush, at a North American summit on Tuesday, offered U.S. assistance and expressed his concern for the citizens of Mexico and elsewhere whose lives were effected by Hurricane Dean.
The space shuttle Endeavour came home a day early on Tuesday after NASA decided to cut short its mission in case Hurricane Dean shut down Johnson Space Center, which directs the shuttle's re-entry and landing.
Stocks opened lower Tuesday as investors looking for a flight to safety continued their move to bonds.
Carbon monoxide poisoning remains a danger year-round in the United States, but health officials warn that hurricane season increases that danger.
Their mission cut short by Hurricane Dean, astronauts aboard the shuttle Endeavour wrapped up their work in orbit Monday and prepared to come home.
Oil fell Monday after forecasts showed Hurricane Dean was unlikely to plough through production and refining centers in the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Dean battered the southern coast of Jamaica with heavy rains and surf as its eye passed offshore late Sunday, apparently sparing the Caribbean island the worst of its 145 mph winds.
Stocks inched higher Monday in tentative morning trading as investors continued to welcome the Federal Reserve's decision to cut the discount rate, but remained wary after a volatile period on Wall Street.
Stocks were mixed Monday morning as investors continued to welcome the Federal Reserve's decision to cut the discount rate, but remained wary after a volatile period on Wall Street.
NASA on Saturday ordered space shuttle Endeavour back to Earth a day early out of fear that Hurricane Dean might disrupt flight operations.
Sorrell on market turmoil
Stocks surged at the start of Friday's session, with the Dow industrials soaring as much as 319 points, after the Federal Reserve in a surprise move, cut the symbolic discount rate.
Oil prices rose Wednesday as a tropical storm swirled in the Gulf of Mexico and the government reported that supplies of crude oil had fallen far more than expected.
Hurricane Flossie roared on course to brush Hawaii's Big Island on Tuesday hours after guarded residents were rattled by a 5.4 magnitude earthquake and dozens of aftershocks
Hurricane Flossie was downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane Tuesday but stayed on course to brush the Big Island
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