Crude oil futures ended higher end of the 6 Lianyin
news early Thursday morning new home sales for December rose more than expected, offset by the impact of unexpected rise in inventories last week, the main crude oil futures ended higher Wednesday, ending a trend of decline for 6 days.
the New York Mercantile Exchange, crude oil for March delivery rose 1.14 dollars to close at $ 87.33 a barrel, or 1.3%. This is the first time in contract prices over the past seven trading days.
2 in recent months, natural gas for January delivery contract rose 2 cents, to close per million British thermal units, $ 4.49, or 0.4%. Most active March contract natural gas rose 1 cents per million British thermal units, $ 4.50, or 0.2%.
the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged and the quantitative easing program, the energy futures essentially maintained most of the gains.
