Beijing early morning of March 31, New York crude oil futures prices closed Friday rose slightly, reversing the previous three trading days of continuous decline, mainly due to U.S. dollar exchange rate fell.
The same day, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) light sweet crude for delivery in May rose 24 cents to close at $ 103.02 a barrel, or 0.2 percent. The transaction of the quarter, the New York crude oil futures prices rose by 4.2% in the fourth quarter rose 25 percent, the annual rise of 8.2%. At the same time, the New York oil prices in March fell 3.8 percent, the highest since September last year, the worst monthly performance.
North Sea Brent crude on London's ICE Eurex for May delivery rose 49 cents to close at $ 122.88 a barrel, or 0.4 percent this quarter, or 14 percent. Closing price, the difference between the Brent crude oil futures in New York, light sweet crude futures for $ 19.86 a barrel, marking the highest level since October 24 last year, on October 14 last year, the difference in the touch each $ 27.88 a barrel the highest level in history.
Support the formation of crude oil futures market, the dollar fell. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the dollar index at 78.995 points, lower than Thursday's 79.176 points. Germany's Commerzbank (CBK), the analyst pointed out that another reason to cause the price of crude oil under pressure, the Governments of France and the United States is considering the release of strategic oil reserves.
In other energy trading in the New York Mercantile Exchange, RBOB gasoline futures for April delivery fell 1 cent to close at $ 3.39 per gallon (about 0.90 U.S. dollars per liter), a decrease of 0.3%, but in this quarter 26% of transactions rose sharply this month, rose 11 percent, the fourth consecutive monthly rise; heating oil futures for April delivery rose less than 1 cent to close at $ 3.17 per gallon (about a liter $ 0.84), or 0.3 percent in the quarter rose 8 percent, the highest since the best performance since the first quarter of 2011 decreased by 0.6%, but this month.
In addition, natural gas futures prices for May delivery fell 2 cents to close at $ 2.13 per million British thermal units, down 1.1 percent, marking the lowest closing price since early February 2002. The transaction of the quarter, the New York natural gas futures prices fell sharply by 29%, the highest since the worst performance since the first quarter of 2010, is also the fifth consecutive quarter fell. March natural gas futures prices fell 19 percent, down 32 percent in 2011.