oil prices: The steep drop in the key U.S. benchmark crude to about $80 US a barrel from around $95 US just a month ago won't be evident in companie financial reports for the quarter ended Sept. 30. , according to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC. "As a whole, we're probably at the price point where I think many of the companies are going to approach the budget season with a little more caution," he said. The recent drop in oil prices will likely be top of mind for investors as Canada top oilpatch players release their third-quarter results over the next few weeks. But oil and gas producers are currently hammering out their budgets for 2015, so analysts and investors will be paying keen attention to the mood of top brass on quarterly conference calls and looking for signals about how oil market volatility may affect future plans, said Lanny Pendill, an analyst with Edward Jones in St. Louis, Mo.
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