Business News

Fill in the gaps below with the following words:

contraction, first half, slumped, forecast, opened, taking on, flat, pump, sliding, dropped,

Oil prices recovered slightly today, after ......... a day earlier on concerns about energy demand
Oil exploration company Tullow says its total revenue for the.................of 2009 is expected to be about £290m
Oil prices ............... by well over a dollar a barrel to below $62 a barrel this evening
There was a record economic ............. in the euro zone in the first quarter, the EU statistics office has confirmed.
The International Monetary Fund today raised its 2010 global economic growth .............to 2.5%.
Google is planning a direct attack on Microsoft by...............the dominant Windows operating system
Wall Street markets ............. lower this afternoon but European markets were higher
The Bank of England is likely to ............ more money into markets and keep its key interest rate at 0.5% tomorrow.
Oil prices ............... to their lowest levels since late May this evening.

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