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Crude oil prices slide Friday

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Published: June 26, 2009 at 4:37 PM
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NEW YORK, June 26 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices slid below $70 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange Friday, as Thursday's stock market rally faded.

Crude oil prices fell $1.03 Friday to $69.37 per barrel. Heating oil prices rose 0.0087 cents to $1.739 per gallon. Reformulated blendstock gasoline rose 0.0049 cents to $1.879 per gallon. Natural gas prices gained 0.041 cents to $3.99 per million British thermal units.

At the pump, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $2.658 Friday, down from Thursday's $2.667 a gallon, AAA said.

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