Beijing July 13 morning news, New York crude oil futures prices closed higher on Tuesday, mainly due to the previous two trading days of falling back into the market to attract investors.
Day, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) 8, light sweet crude for January delivery rose $ 2.28 to close at $ 97.43 a barrel, or 2.4 percent, the highest since June 28th highest single-day gain since an intraday had hit a low of $ 93.55 a barrel. In the previous trading day, the New York crude oil futures prices fell 1.1 percent, closed down last Friday. Compared to last year, New York crude oil futures prices rose by 30%.
London's ICE Futures Europe in August delivery price of Brent North Sea crude rose 51 cents to close at $ 117.75 a barrel, or 0.4%. North Sea Brent crude oil futures in New York crude oil futures price and the difference between the price of $ 20.32 per barrel, lower than yesterday's close of $ 22.09 per barrel.
U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration today announced the short-term outlook report, revised downward global oil demand this year is expected. At the same time, the department also expects the New York light crude oil futures prices, the average price of $ 98.43 per barrel, lower than expected $ 3.48 last month. OPEC (OPEC) said earlier on Tuesday, members of the Organization in June crude oil production to 2960 barrels per day, 500,000 barrels higher than in May.
In other Nymex energy trading, the August delivery RBOB gasoline futures rose 3 cents to close at $ 3.10 per gallon (about $ 0.82 per liter), or 0.9%; August delivery of heating oil futures were flat to close at $ 3.09 per gallon (about $ 0.82 per liter); August natural gas futures prices rose 5 cents to close at per million British thermal units $ 4.33, or 1%. (Civil and military)