Beijing April 9 morning news, New York crude oil futures prices rose on Friday, more than 30 months to close at its highest level, because a weaker dollar prompted investors to buy crude oil and other commodities futures.
Day, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) 5, light sweet crude for February delivery rose $ 2.49, to close at $ 112.79 a barrel, or 2.3%, the highest since September 22, 2008 the highest closing price since. In this week's trading, New York crude oil futures prices rose 4.5%; with the same period last year, the New York oil prices by 32%.
ICE Futures Europe, London, May Brent crude delivery rose $ 3.69, to close at $ 126.36 a barrel, or 3%, after earlier hitting $ 126.87 a barrel, the highest August 1, 2008 at the highest level since.
Today, the dollar fell because of the political debate in the U.S. Congress has not yet shown signs of solving the budget impasse in the negotiations, the U.S. federal government shut down soon. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) used to track the dollar against the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Canadian dollar, Swedish krona and Swiss franc exchange rate changes six currencies dollar index today fell, fell to 75.553 from 74.987 yesterday's point.
In other Nymex trading, May RBOB gasoline futures delivery rose 7 cents to close at $ 3.26 per gallon (about 0.86 U.S. dollars per liter), or 2.3%, the highest since July 2008 the highest level since the week's trading up 3.5%; May delivery heating oil futures rose 11 cents to close at $ 3.31 per gallon (about $ 0.87 per liter), or 3.6% In this week's trading up 5.7%; May natural gas futures fell 2 cents per million British thermal units to close at $ 4.04, or 0.4%. (Jin-liang)