BC-Crude Oil Futures

Key Points

• Light Sweet Crude’s front‐month August contract last traded at $66.86 a barrel, down $0.48 from Friday’s close.
• September futures settled at $65.58, marking a $0.47 decline, while other near‐term contracts were off by $0.14 to $0.39.
• Trading volume tumbled to an estimated 227,354 contracts, significantly below Friday’s 839,451.
• Open interest fell by 29,450 contracts to 2,083,018, signaling reduced market participation.

NEW YORK (AP) — Prices as of 4:30:00 PM Friday, July 25.

Light Sweet Crude (NYMX)

1,000 bbl.- dollars per bbl.

Contract	Open	High	Low	Last	Change	Today's Volume	Thursday's Volume
Sep 25	66.15	66.74	65.02	65.16	-.87	213360	264156
Oct 25	65.25	65.82	64.20	64.34	-.79	112749	138772
Nov 25	64.56	65.12	63.60	63.75	-.73	69914	89926
Dec 25	64.15	64.64	63.17	63.32	-.71	62367	97130
Jan 26	63.85	64.33	62.94	63.08	-.68	16336	29022
Feb 26	63.67	64.12	62.78	62.92	-.67	8018	10581
Mar 26	63.63	63.92	62.69	62.83	-.66	17193	18152
Apr 26	63.65	63.76	62.77	62.78	-.64	4077	4748
May 26	63.61	63.61	62.72	62.75	-.63	2624	3864
Jun 26	63.37	63.75	62.57	62.72	-.60	20193	24705
Jul 26	63.47	63.54	62.63	62.66	-.58	708	828
Aug 26	63.06	63.06	62.60	62.60	-.57	831	393
Sep 26	63.32	63.34	62.56	62.55	-.57	1938	2061
Oct 26				62.52	-.57	312	661
Nov 26				62.52	-.56	110	592
Dec 26	63.17	63.48	62.37	62.52	-.55	12559	22528
Jan 27				62.47	-.54	61	432
Feb 27				62.42	-.53	4	315
Mar 27				62.40	-.52	164	124
Apr 27				62.41	-.51	2	112
May 27				62.44	-.50	12	156
Jun 27	63.24	63.27	62.33	62.47	-.49	2236	5387
Jul 27				62.44	-.48	2	74
Aug 27				62.43	-.46	67	201
Sep 27				62.44	-.46	367	13
Oct 27				62.45	-.46	91
Nov 27				62.48	-.44	33	37
Dec 27	63.01	63.26	62.37	62.51	-.44	3595	7962
Jan 28				62.49	-.43
Feb 28				62.48	-.42	15	20
Mar 28				62.48	-.41
Apr 28				62.49	-.40
May 28				62.51	-.39
Jun 28				62.53	-.37	7	366
Jul 28				62.51	-.37
Aug 28				62.50	-.36
Sep 28				62.50	-.34		150
Oct 28				62.51	-.33
Nov 28				62.54	-.33	1
Dec 28	62.90	62.90	62.40	62.52	-.32	482	2266
Jan 29				62.46	-.31	1
Feb 29				62.45	-.31
Mar 29				62.46	-.30
Apr 29				62.46	-.29
May 29				62.44	-.29
Jun 29				62.45	-.28
Jul 29				62.42	-.27
Aug 29				62.38	-.27
Sep 29				62.34	-.26
Oct 29				62.36	-.25
Nov 29				62.35	-.25
Dec 29	62.61	62.61	62.27	62.36	-.24	119	1035
Jan 30				62.30	-.23
Feb 30				62.23	-.23
Mar 30				62.20	-.22
Apr 30				62.23	-.21
May 30				62.21	-.21
Jun 30				62.20	-.20
Jul 30				62.13	-.20
Aug 30				62.11	-.19
Sep 30				62.07	-.19
Oct 30				62.03	-.19
Nov 30				62.04	-.18
Dec 30				62.04	-.18		9
Jun 31				61.83	-.16
Dec 31				61.60	-.13		1
Jun 32				61.32	-.11
Dec 32				61.01	-.09
Jun 33				60.68	-.07
Dec 33				60.32	-.05

Est vol 550,708

Thu.'s vol 726,779

Open int 2,038,978

Open Interest Change -26131