BC-OILS

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Light sweet crude futures jumped more than $1.70, with the July contract settling at $62.52 per barrel, marking the largest one-day gain since mid-May.
Heating oil futures climbed roughly 3.9 cents, as the front-month July contract closed at 204.45 cents per gallon.
NY Harbor RBOB gasoline futures surged about 3.74 cents, with July gasoline settling at $2.0525 per gallon.
Natural gas futures gained nearly 25 cents, with the July contract finishing at $3.694 per million BTUs.
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xmlns="http://iptc.org/std/NITF/2006-10-18/">NEW YORK (AP) — Futures trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange Tuesday:

	Open	High	Low	Settle	Chg.
LIGHT SWEET CRUDE
1,000 bbl.; dollars per bbl.
Jul	63.02	63.89	62.40	63.41	+.89
Aug	62.01	62.82	61.45	62.48	+.94
Sep	61.14	62.04	60.69	61.74	+1.02
Oct	60.61	61.46	60.14	61.17	+1.05
Nov	60.26	61.07	59.83	60.82	+1.05
Dec	60.04	60.90	59.65	60.64	+1.04
Jan	60.02	60.82	59.66	60.60	+1.04
Feb	59.79	60.80	59.77	60.62	+1.02
Mar	60.20	60.84	59.79	60.69	+1.02
Apr	59.97	60.91	59.95	60.77	+1.01
May	60.07	60.97	60.06	60.85	+.99
Jun	60.48	61.10	60.09	60.92	+.96
Jul	61.03	61.03	60.91	60.95	+.94
Aug				60.98	+.94
Sep	60.99	61.15	60.99	61.02	+.92
Oct				61.07	+.91
Nov				61.14	+.89
Dec	60.82	61.35	60.45	61.21	+.88
Jan				61.23	+.87
Feb				61.25	+.86
Mar				61.29	+.85
Apr				61.35	+.84
May				61.44	+.83
Jun	61.04	61.60	60.83	61.51	+.82
Jul				61.53	+.81
Aug				61.57	+.80
Sep				61.61	+.79
Oct				61.65	+.78
Nov				61.70	+.76
Dec	61.21	61.90	61.17	61.77	+.75
Jan				61.79	+.74
Feb				61.81	+.75
Mar				61.84	+.73
Apr				61.85	+.71
May				61.89	+.68
Jun				61.96	+.67
Jul				61.97	+.66
Aug				61.99	+.64
Sep				61.99	+.63
Oct				62.05	+.63
Nov				62.06	+.60
Dec	61.80	62.02	61.61	62.07	+.58
Jan				62.04	+.56
Feb				62.03	+.55
Mar				62.05	+.54
Apr				62.08	+.53
May				62.12	+.51
Jun				62.13	+.50
Jul				62.09	+.49
Aug				62.08	+.47
Sep				62.06	+.46
Oct				62.09	+.45
Nov				62.13	+.43
Dec				62.15	+.42
Jan				62.09	+.41
Feb				62.06	+.39
Mar				62.04	+.38
Apr				62.05	+.37
May				62.07	+.35
Jun				62.07	+.34
Jul				62.00	+.33
Aug				61.99	+.31
Sep				61.95	+.30
Oct				61.93	+.29
Nov				61.92	+.27
Dec				61.94	+.26
Jun				61.91	+.26
Dec				61.82	+.26
Jun				61.70	+.26
Dec				61.53	+.26
Jun				61.34	+.26
Dec				61.08	+.26
	Est. sales 796,013	Mon.'s sales 1,162,228
	Mon.'s open int 2,026,082	down 32,433
HEATING OIL
42,000 gal, cents per gal
Jul	205.46	210.76	204.91	209.99	+5.54
Aug	205.73	209.59	204.34	208.91	+5.07
Sep	206.53	209.91	205.07	209.16	+4.57
Oct	206.86	210.27	205.65	209.51	+4.24
Nov	207.12	210.21	205.79	209.47	+4.04
Dec	206.87	210.00	205.57	209.22	+3.91
Jan	207.06	210.26	206.08	209.54	+3.88
Feb	206.13	209.96	206.13	209.31	+3.87
Mar	205.30	208.98	205.30	208.39	+3.86
Apr	205.06	207.02	205.06	206.81	+3.81
May	205.98	206.45	205.98	206.06	+3.76
Jun	203.03	206.19	203.03	205.70	+3.71
Jul				206.27	+3.67
Aug				206.94	+3.63
Sep				207.73	+3.57
Oct				208.44	+3.51
	Est. sales 170,492	Mon.'s sales 138,267
	Mon.'s open int 326,116	down 4,232
NY HARBOR RBOB GAS
42,000 gallons; dollars per gallon
Jul	2.0640	2.0886	2.0500	2.0788	+263
Aug	2.0409	2.0637	2.0250	2.0545	+267
Sep	2.0080	2.0261	1.9885	2.0179	+272
Oct	1.8538	1.8716	1.8355	1.8638	+264
Nov	1.8012	1.8213	1.7900	1.8146	+271
Dec	1.7646	1.7899	1.7541	1.7835	+284
Jan	1.7552	1.7784	1.7505	1.7740	+301
Feb	1.7598	1.7835	1.7565	1.7808	+308
Mar	1.7836	1.7946	1.7772	1.7985	+309
Apr	1.9782	1.9947	1.9714	1.9929	+314
May	1.9847	1.9935	1.9778	1.9991	+315
Jun	1.9757	1.9872	1.9757	1.9937	+313
Jul	1.9776	1.9776	1.9776	1.9791	+310
Aug				1.9575	+302
Sep				1.9280	+293
Oct				1.7961	+293
Nov				1.7626	+283
Dec	1.7475	1.7475	1.7475	1.7436	+281
Jan				1.7413	+281
Feb				1.7550	+281
Mar				1.7729	+281
Apr				1.9667	+281
May				1.9738	+281
Jun				1.9768	+281
Jul				1.9675	+281
Aug				1.9539	+281
Sep				1.9263	+281
Oct				1.7995	+281
Nov				1.7736	+281
Dec				1.7593	+281
Jan				1.7580	+281
Feb				1.7713	+281
Mar				1.7910	+281
Apr				1.9802	+281
May				1.9970	+281
Jun				1.9929	+281
Jul				1.9830	+281
	Est. sales 125,311	Mon.'s sales 162,228
	Mon.'s open int 386,366	down 5,392
NATURAL GAS
10,000 mm btu's, $ per mm btu
Jul	3.748	3.764	3.630	3.722	+28
Aug	3.825	3.843	3.711	3.797	+29
Sep	3.800	3.819	3.697	3.773	+22
Oct	3.889	3.908	3.790	3.864	+21
Nov	4.218	4.251	4.149	4.216	+22
Dec	4.715	4.751	4.654	4.726	+30
Jan	4.984	5.026	4.931	5.007	+32
Feb	4.722	4.745	4.655	4.731	+28
Mar	4.263	4.287	4.203	4.278	+36
Apr	3.937	3.962	3.885	3.955	+39
May	3.921	3.943	3.873	3.938	+38
Jun	4.076	4.092	4.031	4.089	+35
Jul	4.248	4.264	4.205	4.261	+37
Aug	4.291	4.306	4.253	4.305	+37
Sep	4.242	4.260	4.201	4.255	+38
Oct	4.288	4.307	4.246	4.301	+40
Nov	4.436	4.463	4.414	4.462	+30
Dec	4.802	4.809	4.779	4.808	+25
Jan	5.034	5.046	5.015	5.046	+24
Feb	4.634	4.654	4.623	4.653	+19
Mar	4.000	4.008	3.973	3.998	+8
Apr	3.513	3.524	3.492	3.511	+2
May	3.474	3.489	3.456	3.476	+2
Jun	3.613	3.628	3.594	3.613	0
Jul	3.774	3.774	3.774	3.774	-1
Aug	3.813	3.822	3.813	3.822	-1
Sep	3.780	3.783	3.774	3.783	-1
Oct	3.835	3.835	3.824	3.824	-14
Nov	4.011	4.011	4.011	4.011	-5
Dec	4.425	4.425	4.407	4.421	-1
Jan	4.710	4.710	4.710	4.710	+5
	Est. sales 347,830	Mon.'s sales 460,003
	Mon.'s open int 1,511,229	down 7,493

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