

NEW YORK, March 12 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices settled at less than $82 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange Friday after hitting a peak last reached two months ago.
Prices have swung from $82.75 per barrel in early January to near $71 in early February and back up again.
The price of April delivery, light, sweet crude hit a mid-session high above $83 before settling back to $81.39 per barrel. Heating oil prices lost 0.015 cents to $2.10 a gallon. Reformulated gasoline blendstock prices fell 0.0123 cents to $2.2597 a gallon. Henry Hub natural gas prices lost 0.053 cents to $4.387 per million British thermal units.
At the retail level, the national average price of unleaded gasoline was $2.783 per gallon Wednesday, up from Thursday's $2.776, AAA said.
|
|
|
| Additional Business News Stories | |
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the construction of two new nuclear reactors, the first to be built in the United States since 1978.
|
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 10 (UPI) --
The Babcock and Wilcox Nuclear Operations Group reports a second order for nuclear power components for the U.S. Navy under a contract awarded in 2010.
|
Local markets will probably not be swamped by waves of foreclosures following the multi-state mortgage settlement announced yesterday. Rather, the huge inventory of one to two million foreclosures will enter markets gradually....
|
Doubts about the euro are not subsiding, new leadership or not, rescue plan or not.
|
| Stories | Photos | People | Comments |
View Caption