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Key Points

  • The price of light sweet crude oil for the October delivery settled at $62.26, reflecting a 39 cent increase.
  • Heating oil prices also rose, with the October contract settling at $231.19, up by 2.49 cents.
  • In natural gas, prices for the October contract reached $3.090, which represents an increase of 42 cents.
  • Overall trading activity saw a decline with estimated sales in crude oil at 615,620 contracts compared to the previous Friday's 819,588 contracts.
  • MarketBeat previews top five stocks to own in October.

xmlns="http://iptc.org/std/NITF/2006-10-18/">NEW YORK (AP) — Futures trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange Wednesday:

OpenHighLowSettleChg.
LIGHT SWEET CRUDE
1,000 bbl.; dollars per bbl.
Oct 2562.7464.0862.7263.67+1.04
Nov 2562.3963.7062.3863.35+1.06
Dec 2562.1763.3962.1763.09+1.03
Jan 2662.0263.1962.0262.93+.98
Feb 2662.0963.0662.0962.82+.93
Mar 2661.9562.9861.9562.75+.89
Apr 2662.1862.8962.1062.69+.85
May 2662.2462.8362.2062.64+.82
Jun 2661.9162.8261.9162.59+.80
Jul 2662.1062.7262.0562.53+.78
Aug 2661.9862.6361.9862.47+.75
Sep 2662.0862.6361.9162.43+.74
Oct 2662.2062.4062.0662.40+.73
Nov 2662.4062.4062.3362.40+.71
Dec 2661.8062.6161.8062.41+.71
Jan 2762.37+.70
Feb 2762.35+.69
Mar 2762.35+.68
Apr 2762.1062.4062.0762.39+.68
May 2762.3062.3062.3062.45+.66
Jun 2762.0862.6962.0862.50+.65
Jul 2762.4062.4062.4062.51+.64
Aug 2762.54+.63
Sep 2762.59+.63
Oct 2762.64+.63
Nov 2762.71+.62
Dec 2762.4562.9662.3962.80+.62
Jan 2862.83+.62
Feb 2862.85+.62
Mar 2862.89+.62
Apr 2862.94+.62
May 2863.01+.62
Jun 2863.08+.62
Jul 2863.10+.62
Aug 2863.13+.62
Sep 2863.19+.62
Oct 2863.25+.62
Nov 2863.32+.63
Dec 2862.7363.4962.7363.38+.64
Jan 2963.38+.64
Feb 2963.41+.64
Mar 2963.45+.65
Apr 2963.49+.66
May 2963.49+.64
Jun 2963.58+.65
Jul 2963.61+.66
Aug 2963.63+.66
Sep 2963.66+.66
Oct 2963.71+.68
Nov 2963.75+.68
Dec 2963.81+.69
Jan 3063.81+.69
Feb 3063.80+.68
Mar 3063.81+.68
Apr 3063.82+.68
May 3063.85+.67
Jun 3063.88+.67
Jul 3063.87+.67
Aug 3063.86+.68
Sep 3063.90+.69
Oct 3063.92+.70
Nov 3063.97+.71
Dec 3064.00+.71
Jun 3163.97+.72
Dec 3163.95+.73
Jun 3263.87+.74
Dec 3263.74+.75
Jun 3363.50+.75
Dec 3363.37+.76
Est. sales 660,910Tue.'s sales 737,759
Tue.'s open int 2,008,820down 51,716
HEATING OIL
42,000 gal, cents per gal
Oct 25232.47234.07231.16233.37+1.38
Nov 25231.75233.22230.35232.63+1.62
Dec 25228.98230.82228.19230.31+1.68
Jan 26228.35229.71227.19229.30+1.70
Feb 26227.90228.58226.04228.24+1.74
Mar 26225.08226.18223.70225.88+1.81
Apr 26222.43223.28220.83223.00+1.85
May 26219.98221.17218.93221.04+1.80
Jun 26218.39219.83217.50219.59+1.77
Jul 26218.62219.36217.60219.38+1.72
Aug 26218.79218.79217.81219.53+1.69
Sep 26219.50219.50218.58219.99+1.62
Oct 26219.38219.38219.38220.47+1.58
Nov 26220.53+1.55
Dec 26218.99220.50218.34220.28+1.51
Jan 27220.43+1.45
Est. sales 128,723Tue.'s sales 126,792
Tue.'s open int 368,139up 11,241
NY HARBOR RBOB GAS
42,000 gallons; dollars per gallon
Oct 251.99302.01731.98782.0080+155
Nov 251.93421.95691.92901.9495+179
Dec 251.87931.90651.87931.9006+200
Jan 261.86401.88351.85811.8790+213
Feb 261.86511.88611.86041.8830+229
Mar 261.88071.90371.87811.9007+237
Apr 262.07372.08902.06602.0869+224
May 262.07972.09032.06892.0897+222
Jun 262.07022.08122.06002.0791+219
Jul 262.04722.04812.04612.0594+213
Aug 262.02932.03452.02932.0340+205
Sep 261.98871.99941.98872.0010+196
Oct 261.8646+194
Nov 261.8288+181
Dec 261.79551.80981.79161.8055+168
Jan 271.7970+156
Feb 271.8017+155
Mar 271.8163+155
Apr 272.0107+155
May 272.0157+155
Jun 272.0154+155
Jul 272.0049+155
Aug 271.9895+155
Sep 271.9602+155
Oct 271.8318+155
Nov 271.8043+155
Dec 271.7862+155
Jan 281.7851+155
Feb 281.7984+155
Mar 281.8181+155
Apr 282.0074+155
May 282.0241+155
Jun 282.0198+155
Jul 282.0099+155
Aug 281.9943+155
Sep 281.9638+155
Oct 281.8367+155
Est. sales 161,746Tue.'s sales 157,622
Tue.'s open int 330,391up 8,532
NATURAL GAS
10,000 mm btu's, $ per mm btu
Oct 253.1073.1173.0083.029-88
Nov 253.3463.3503.2643.302-63
Dec 253.8973.9053.8303.877-37
Jan 264.2084.2264.1524.202-28
Feb 263.9904.0113.9443.989-24
Mar 263.6253.6433.5843.629-15
Apr 263.5063.5173.4623.497-15
May 263.5253.5433.4913.522-14
Jun 263.6793.7043.6563.681-15
Jul 263.8673.8883.8413.864-14
Aug 263.9043.9313.8843.906-13
Sep 263.8773.8863.8393.859-14
Oct 263.9213.9313.8823.903-15
Nov 264.1194.1294.0914.100-18
Dec 264.4964.5094.4704.479-14
Jan 274.7474.7654.7274.735-12
Feb 274.4224.4274.3924.402-11
Mar 273.8203.8353.8043.817-6
Apr 273.4103.4233.3933.406-3
May 273.3833.4003.3833.392-2
Jun 273.5303.5413.5253.525-8
Jul 273.6963.7013.6893.695-3
Aug 273.7363.7483.7363.741-5
Sep 273.7163.7213.6983.708-1
Oct 273.7663.7753.7663.766-2
Nov 273.9833.9833.9633.976+1
Dec 274.3894.4054.3854.395+1
Feb 284.3204.3204.3204.320-2
Mar 283.6723.6743.6723.674-9
Apr 283.2173.2173.2153.215-3
May 283.2003.2023.1993.199-2
Jun 283.3503.3503.3453.345-10
Jul 283.5273.5273.5273.527-4
Aug 283.5883.5883.5883.588-6
Oct 283.6193.6233.6193.623-14
Nov 283.8433.8443.8433.844-28
Dec 284.2834.2854.2814.285-40
Dec 294.1504.1504.1504.150-42
Est. sales 424,760Tue.'s sales 481,866
Tue.'s open int 1,635,145down 4,053

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