Beijing April 15 morning news, New York crude oil futures prices Thursday closed up because the dollar fell, and the declines earlier this week to attract investors to buy crude oil futures.
Day, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) 5, light sweet crude for February delivery rose $ 1, to close at $ 108.11 a barrel, or 0.9%, marking the highest since Monday's closing price. Compared to last year, New York crude oil futures prices rose by 26%. ICE Futures Europe, London, May Brent crude futures delivery fell 48 cents to close at $ 122.40 a barrel, down 0.4%. May Brent crude oil futures contract expires tomorrow, June contract fell 21 cents to close at $ 122.12 a barrel.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) used to track the dollar against the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Canadian dollar, Swedish krona and Swiss franc exchange rate of six currencies dollar index fell from Wednesday's 74.966 points to 74.676 points, after hitting a low 74.617 points points, the highest since December 2009 the lowest level since. Under normal circumstances, the dollar exchange rate and crude oil prices, which move inversely.
In other Nymex trading, May delivery RBOB gasoline futures fell 1 cent to close at $ 3.23 per gallon (about $ 0.85 per liter), a decrease of 0.2%; May heating delivery oil futures fell 1 cent to close at $ 3.19 per gallon (about 0.84 U.S. dollars per liter), or 0.4%; May natural gas futures prices rose 7 cents to close at 4.21 per million British thermal units U.S. dollars, or 1.7%, the highest since April 5 the highest closing price since.
U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a report today, as of April 8 the week to 28 billion cubic feet of natural gas inventories increased (about 800 million cubic meters), below the increase that analysts expected 31 billion cubic feet (about 900 million cubic meters) to 35 billion cubic feet (about 1 billion cubic meters). (Jin-liang)