Hurricane fears push gasoline futures rose, NYMEX crude oil futures ended slightly higher on the 25th, to close at $ 85.30 a barrel, gasoline futures rose 3.1 percent, to close at $ 2.97 per gallon.
 According to Dow Jones Newswires reported on August 25, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) crude oil futures ended slightly higher 25, the second consecutive trading day higher as the market worried about Hurricane Irene (Irene) may lead to the East Coast crude oil supply disruption .
 NYMEX 10 月份, light sweet crude rose 14 cents to close at $ 85.30 a barrel, after earlier touching a minimum $ 83.01 per barrel. ICE October Brent crude futures settled up 47 cents, to $ 110.62 a barrel.
 U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released up to August 19 week's U.S. natural gas inventory report. The report shows the week to add 73 billion cubic feet of natural gas inventory. Market research firm Platts survey, analysts on average expected the week to 72 billion cubic feet of natural gas inventories rose to 760 billion cubic feet.
 Traders said that as long as part of the supply chain is not interrupted, the current inventory levels can cope. However, the New York Mercantile Exchange, September 31, RBOB gasoline futures will expire, the storm caused outages could push the contract up until the due date.
 In addition to guard against hurricanes, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board (Federal Reserve referred to as the Fed) Chairman Ben Bernanke (Ben Bernanke) 26 Jackson Hole, Wyoming at the annual meeting of the Bank of speech is also traders of the object of attention.
 In other energy trading, September RBOB gasoline futures rose 9 cents to close at $ 2.97 per gallon, or 3.1%; September heating oil futures rose 2 cents to close at $ 2.99 per gallon, or 0.8%. (Chung Sang Yu)