BC-Crude Oil Futures

Key Points

• Front-month crude (Jul 25) fell 69 cents to $72.29 a barrel, hitting an intra-day low of $71.26.
• Most near‐term futures also declined, with the Aug 25 contract down 61 cents at $70.68 and the Sep 25 contract off 50 cents at $69.06.
• Trading volume plunged to an estimated 793,649 contracts versus 3,499,692 on Friday.
• Open interest dropped by 61,111 contracts to 2,020,231, indicating lighter positions overall.

NEW YORK (AP) — Prices as of 4:30:00 PM Tuesday, June 17.

Light Sweet Crude (NYMX)

1,000 bbl.- dollars per bbl.

Contract	Open	High	Low	Last	Change	Today's Volume	Monday's Volume
Jul 25	71.11	75.38	71.00	74.84	+3.07	117954	337351
Aug 25	69.66	73.72	69.56	73.27	+3.02	476192	433725
Sep 25	68.30	71.94	68.08	71.57	+2.85	198932	204426
Oct 25	67.02	70.45	66.98	70.15	+2.59	113545	123803
Nov 25	66.29	69.45	66.29	69.19	+2.35	76738	93736
Dec 25	66.13	68.71	65.76	68.52	+2.18	188604	195522
Jan 26	65.57	68.15	65.45	68.02	+2.02	41515	46436
Feb 26	65.35	67.74	65.35	67.64	+1.89	23002	29902
Mar 26	65.45	67.44	65.24	67.33	+1.78	42660	46869
Apr 26	65.72	67.13	65.49	67.07	+1.68	7855	13730
May 26	65.50	66.92	65.33	66.85	+1.61	5860	11763
Jun 26	64.65	66.74	64.51	66.64	+1.55	67795	75509
Jul 26	64.57	66.80	64.57	66.43	+1.49	3121	9706
Aug 26	64.96	66.25	64.96	66.25	+1.44	950	5469
Sep 26	65.29	65.71	65.21	66.11	+1.41	7783	9139
Oct 26	64.63	65.87	64.63	65.99	+1.36	852	1438
Nov 26				65.90	+1.32	613	786
Dec 26	64.14	65.93	63.99	65.83	+1.31	68239	75860
Jan 27				65.70	+1.30	179	536
Feb 27				65.55	+1.27	208	440
Mar 27				65.44	+1.25	1244	1143
Apr 27				65.35	+1.23	79	524
May 27				65.32	+1.22	32	504
Jun 27	63.76	65.40	63.76	65.30	+1.21	13873	14616
Jul 27				65.22	+1.20	62	77
Aug 27				65.13	+1.17	34	116
Sep 27				65.08	+1.16	80	285
Oct 27				65.03	+1.14	10	110
Nov 27				65.01	+1.10	10	110
Dec 27	63.64	65.04	63.57	64.97	+1.07	14104	20645
Jan 28				64.88	+1.04	10	4
Feb 28				64.82	+1.03		3
Mar 28				64.77	+1.00	5	5
Apr 28				64.72	+1.00
May 28				64.69	+.98
Jun 28	64.25	64.69	64.25	64.70	+.98	270	493
Jul 28				64.65	+.97
Aug 28				64.61	+.96	6	10
Sep 28				64.57	+.95	6	10
Oct 28				64.55	+.94
Nov 28				64.53	+.91
Dec 28	64.00	64.59	63.91	64.49	+.92	2651	3563
Jan 29				64.39	+.91
Feb 29				64.36	+.90
Mar 29				64.34	+.90
Apr 29				64.34	+.89
May 29				64.32	+.88
Jun 29				64.28	+.87
Jul 29				64.19	+.86
Aug 29				64.16	+.85
Sep 29				64.11	+.85
Oct 29				64.11	+.84
Nov 29				64.11	+.83
Dec 29				64.10	+.82	480	960
Jan 30				64.01	+.81
Feb 30				63.97	+.81
Mar 30				63.92	+.80
Apr 30				63.92	+.80
May 30				63.91	+.79
Jun 30				63.90	+.79
Jul 30				63.83	+.78
Aug 30				63.80	+.77
Sep 30				63.77	+.77
Oct 30				63.73	+.76
Nov 30				63.73	+.76
Dec 30				63.73	+.75	4	181
Jun 31				63.52	+.71
Dec 31				63.26	+.67	2	71
Jun 32				63.00	+.63
Dec 32				62.69	+.57	1	4
Jun 33				62.50	+.57
Dec 33				62.24	+.57		3

Est vol 1,475,566

Mon.'s vol 1,759,583

Open int 1,984,798

Open Interest Change -60361