BC-OILS

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Light sweet crude August futures fell $1.47 to settle at $66.98 per barrel, marking a sharp pullback in oil prices.
Heating oil slid 5.76 cents to 238.98 cents per gallon while RBOB gasoline lost 21.6 cents to $2.1654 per gallon.
Natural gas was the lone gainer, rising 15.2 cents to $3.466 per mmBtu amid mixed energy market movement.
Crude futures saw estimated volume of 876,231 contracts, with open interest up by 2,810 to 2.067 million contracts.
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xmlns="http://iptc.org/std/NITF/2006-10-18/">NEW YORK (AP) — Futures trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange Monday:

	Open	High	Low	Settle	Chg.
LIGHT SWEET CRUDE
1,000 bbl.; dollars per bbl.
Aug	68.68	69.65	66.84	66.98	-1.47
Sep	67.35	68.16	65.70	65.81	-1.23
Oct	65.93	66.84	64.68	64.78	-.99
Nov	65.10	65.88	64.00	64.10	-.80
Dec	64.50	65.23	63.45	63.65	-.67
Jan	64.13	64.79	63.16	63.41	-.57
Feb	63.96	64.55	62.97	63.26	-.50
Mar	63.89	64.36	62.88	63.17	-.46
Apr	63.82	64.23	62.82	63.10	-.44
May	63.89	63.89	62.80	63.06	-.41
Jun	63.67	64.10	62.70	63.03	-.39
Jul	63.73	63.73	62.77	62.98	-.39
Aug	62.97	63.19	62.97	62.95	-.38
Sep	63.27	63.27	63.27	62.93	-.37
Oct				62.94	-.35
Nov				62.97	-.34
Dec	63.58	63.90	62.64	63.00	-.34
Jan	63.14	63.14	62.96	62.98	-.33
Feb				62.96	-.32
Mar				62.98	-.29
Apr				63.01	-.27
May				63.08	-.25
Jun	63.39	63.83	62.80	63.14	-.23
Jul				63.14	-.21
Aug				63.15	-.20
Sep				63.19	-.18
Oct				63.23	-.16
Nov				63.29	-.14
Dec	63.50	63.89	62.93	63.35	-.12
Jan				63.35	-.11
Feb				63.37	-.09
Mar				63.39	-.08
Apr				63.42	-.06
May				63.47	-.05
Jun				63.51	-.02
Jul				63.51	0
Aug				63.52	+.02
Sep				63.53	+.03
Oct				63.55	+.04
Nov				63.58	+.04
Dec	63.67	63.67	63.41	63.59	+.05
Jan				63.55	+.06
Feb				63.54	+.07
Mar				63.55	+.08
Apr				63.56	+.09
May				63.60	+.10
Jun				63.58	+.11
Jul				63.52	+.12
Aug				63.55	+.14
Sep				63.50	+.15
Oct				63.52	+.16
Nov				63.57	+.18
Dec				63.59	+.19
Jan				63.53	+.20
Feb				63.49	+.20
Mar				63.47	+.21
Apr				63.49	+.21
May				63.50	+.22
Jun				63.49	+.22
Jul				63.43	+.23
Aug				63.41	+.23
Sep				63.40	+.24
Oct				63.37	+.24
Nov				63.38	+.25
Dec				63.39	+.25
Jun				63.20	+.27
Dec				63.02	+.29
Jun				62.77	+.30
Dec				62.53	+.32
Jun				62.24	+.32
Dec				61.88	+.32
	Est. sales 876,231	Fri.'s sales 720,736
	Fri.'s open int 2,067,782	up 2,810
HEATING OIL
42,000 gal, cents per gal
Aug	246.42	248.19	238.62	238.98	-5.76
Sep	242.64	244.48	236.44	236.72	-4.15
Oct	239.33	241.21	234.26	234.50	-3.60
Nov	236.25	237.55	231.11	231.32	-3.31
Dec	231.77	232.89	227.20	227.45	-3.15
Jan	229.20	231.12	225.93	226.16	-2.92
Feb	228.86	229.60	224.78	225.02	-2.70
Mar	226.00	226.80	222.45	222.70	-2.47
Apr	223.11	223.11	219.58	219.60	-2.19
May	220.71	220.71	217.38	217.57	-1.89
Jun	217.76	219.22	215.85	216.23	-1.66
Jul	217.80	218.30	216.29	216.34	-1.61
Aug				216.67	-1.57
Sep	217.20	217.50	217.20	217.17	-1.51
Oct	218.50	218.50	218.50	217.67	-1.42
Nov	218.75	218.75	217.86	217.83	-1.35
	Est. sales 215,002	Fri.'s sales 178,756
	Fri.'s open int 332,747	down 5,088
NY HARBOR RBOB GAS
42,000 gallons; dollars per gallon
Aug	2.1958	2.2124	2.1571	2.1654	-216
Sep	2.1511	2.1683	2.1192	2.1251	-184
Oct	1.9975	2.0117	1.9661	1.9706	-178
Nov	1.9401	1.9569	1.9143	1.9194	-164
Dec	1.9042	1.9173	1.8776	1.8824	-157
Jan	1.8839	1.8992	1.8623	1.8675	-143
Feb	1.8988	1.8992	1.8694	1.8727	-128
Mar	1.9056	1.9115	1.8877	1.8910	-113
Apr	2.0949	2.0949	2.0789	2.0796	-102
May	2.0974	2.0974	2.0822	2.0831	-97
Jun	2.0943	2.0943	2.0733	2.0745	-94
Jul	2.0701	2.0701	2.0556	2.0574	-89
Aug	2.0392	2.0392	2.0391	2.0344	-84
Sep	2.0092	2.0105	2.0009	2.0034	-76
Oct				1.8726	-56
Nov				1.8374	-60
Dec	1.8194	1.8195	1.8119	1.8159	-68
Jan				1.8093	-68
Feb				1.8184	-69
Mar				1.8356	-71
Apr				2.0314	-69
May				2.0382	-69
Jun				2.0398	-71
Jul				2.0305	-71
Aug				2.0168	-71
Sep				1.9891	-71
Oct				1.8624	-71
Nov				1.8363	-71
Dec				1.8201	-71
Jan				1.8188	-71
Feb				1.8321	-71
Mar				1.8518	-71
Apr				2.0410	-71
May				2.0578	-71
Jun				2.0537	-71
Jul				2.0438	-71
Aug				2.0281	-71
	Est. sales 128,268	Fri.'s sales 146,878
	Fri.'s open int 353,179	up 3,708
NATURAL GAS
10,000 mm btu's, $ per mm btu
Aug	3.404	3.499	3.383	3.466	+152
Sep	3.463	3.523	3.418	3.501	+149
Oct	3.563	3.640	3.544	3.623	+143
Nov	3.980	4.054	3.968	4.040	+131
Dec	4.584	4.660	4.581	4.647	+120
Jan	4.894	4.971	4.889	4.953	+114
Feb	4.627	4.672	4.600	4.648	+93
Mar	4.140	4.207	4.139	4.175	+71
Apr	3.870	3.940	3.870	3.905	+59
May	3.874	3.933	3.874	3.904	+56
Jun	4.001	4.070	4.001	4.043	+53
Jul	4.178	4.246	4.178	4.219	+55
Aug	4.234	4.300	4.234	4.275	+54
Sep	4.187	4.255	4.187	4.231	+52
Oct	4.268	4.311	4.256	4.287	+51
Nov	4.472	4.497	4.470	4.477	+37
Dec	4.852	4.866	4.836	4.844	+19
Jan	5.099	5.112	5.081	5.087	+14
Feb	4.666	4.715	4.666	4.697	+22
Mar	4.024	4.055	3.999	4.040	+19
Apr	3.580	3.590	3.558	3.561	+7
May	3.528	3.539	3.528	3.520	+7
Jun	3.673	3.677	3.662	3.659	+8
Jul	3.845	3.849	3.835	3.833	+9
Aug	3.904	3.904	3.892	3.889	+10
Sep	3.868	3.871	3.868	3.854	+10
Oct	3.937	3.945	3.930	3.923	+11
Nov	4.131	4.133	4.124	4.115	+9
Dec	4.516	4.540	4.513	4.523	+9
Jan				4.811	+8
Feb				4.507	+9
Mar				3.841	+9
Apr				3.360	+8
May				3.322	+6
Jun				3.471	+4
Jul				3.649	+8
Aug				3.721	+7
Sep				3.711	+2
Oct				3.776	+7
Nov				3.994	+10
Dec				4.438	+13
Jan	4.651	4.651	4.651	4.662	+11
Feb				4.373	+12
Mar				3.678	-7
Apr				3.233	-7
May				3.200	-7
Jun				3.355	-7
Jul				3.536	-7
Aug				3.609	-7
Sep				3.602	-7
Oct	3.685	3.685	3.685	3.666	-7
Nov				3.869	-7
Dec				4.296	-7
Jan				4.556	-7
Feb				4.270	-7
Mar				3.583	-7
Apr				3.042	-7
May				3.008	-7
Jun				3.162	-7
Jul				3.337	-7
Aug				3.400	-7
Sep				3.390	-7
Oct				3.450	-7
Nov				3.654	-7
Dec				4.122	-7
Jan				4.382	-7
Feb				4.086	-7
Mar				3.497	-7
Apr				3.091	-7
May				3.066	-7
Jun				3.219	-7
Jul				3.383	-7
Aug				3.419	-7
Sep				3.392	-7
Oct				3.465	-7
Nov				3.665	-7
Dec				4.086	-7
Jan				4.339	-7
Feb				4.029	-7
Mar				3.374	-7
Apr				2.893	-7
May				2.913	-7
Jun				3.063	-7
Jul				3.223	-7
Aug				3.255	-7
Sep				3.230	-7
Oct				3.305	-7
Nov				3.535	-7
Dec				3.965	-7
Jan				4.215	-7
Feb				3.950	-7
Mar				3.330	-7
Apr				2.880	-7
May				2.910	-7
Jun				3.052	-7
Jul				3.217	-7
Aug				3.257	-7
Sep				3.232	-7
Oct				3.278	-7
Nov				3.538	-7
Dec				3.938	-7
Jan				4.193	-7
Feb				3.993	-7
Mar				3.418	-7
Apr				3.018	-7
May				3.048	-7
Jun				3.178	-7
Jul				3.323	-7
Aug				3.363	-7
Sep				3.378	-7
Oct				3.424	-7
Nov				3.664	-7
Dec				4.064	-7
Jan				4.284	-7
Feb				4.084	-7
Mar				3.694	-7
Apr				3.364	-7
May				3.342	-7
Jun				3.377	-7
Jul				3.417	-7
Aug				3.457	-7
Sep				3.472	-7
Oct				3.518	-7
Nov				3.718	-7
Dec				4.018	-7
Jan				4.288	-7
Feb				4.118	-7
Mar				3.848	-7
Apr				3.518	-7
May				3.496	-7
Jun				3.531	-7
Jul				3.571	-7
Aug				3.611	-7
Sep				3.626	-7
Oct				3.672	-7
Nov				3.744	-7
Dec				3.899	-7
Jan				4.124	-7
Feb				3.974	-7
Mar				3.774	-7
Apr				3.444	-7
May				3.422	-7
Jun				3.457	-7
Jul				3.497	-7
Aug				3.537	-7
Sep				3.552	-7
Oct				3.598	-7
Nov				3.670	-7
Dec				3.825	-7
	Est. sales 393,777	Fri.'s sales 354,048
	Fri.'s open int 1,534,572	up 7,890

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