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Mark Lacter • July 18 2008 1:23 PM

Not nearly as much as in recent days, but a 47-cents-a-barrel decline brought crude prices below $129 - nearly 13 percent off last week's record peak. Oil's losses this week are the steepest in dollar terms since futures began trading in New York in 1983.

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