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By AP
18 July 2008 @ 06:34 pm EST

Oil prices tumble in biggest weekly drop ever

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NEW YORK (AP)--The price of oil recorded its biggest weekly drop ever, and a gallon of gas finally pulled back from its record high. So is it time to declare the energy bubble popped? Experts won't go that far just yet.

"It's too early to say we've seen the worst of it," said Tom Kloza, publisher and chief oil analyst of the Oil Price Information Service in Wall, N.J.

Light, sweet crude for August delivery fell 41 cents Friday to settle at $128.88 on the New York Mercantile Exchange--well below its trading record of more than $147 a week earlier.

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Wall Street mixed after earnings reports

NEW YORK (AP)--Wall Street closed out an impressive week with a mixed performance Friday after disappointing high-tech earnings punctured some of investors' enthusiasm over better-than-expected bank earnings reports.

The Dow rose 49.91, or 0.44 percent, to 11,496.57, adding on to a 483-point gain Wednesday and Thursday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.36, or 0.03 percent, to 1,260.68, and the Nasdaq dropped 29.52, or 1.28 percent, to 2,282.78.

For the week, the Dow rose 3.57 percent, the Nasdaq increased 1.95 percent, and the S&P rose 1.71 percent.

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