While regulators are meeting in Washington to consider imposing new limits on speculators, who some blame for the sudden changes in the prices of gas and oil, crude oil fell by 6% on Wednesday after recovering for nearly the same on Thursday.
The reference crude for delivery in September rose $ 3.59, or 5.6%, to $ 66.94 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil, gasoline futures, heating fuel and natural gas increased at least 5% of transactions in the afternoon.
In London, the price of Brent rose 3.58 dollars to reach $ 70.11 a barrel on the ICE market sales at term.
Oil prices have continued to stock market and the trend continued on Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial index rose 163.39 points to reach 9234.11 in transactions in the morning. The price of crude has skyrocketed shortly after the opening of financial markets in United States.
The provisions of natural gas, used to put the plants in operation, are still growing.
The Energy Information Agency reported on Thursday that supplies of natural gas increased from 71,000 million cubic feet over the past week, putting the country's reserves by 23% over last year.
Gasoline rose to the consumer for less than a penny to $ 2.516 a gallon, or 66 cents a liter, according to auto club AAA, Wright Express and the Information Service of the oil price.
In other Nymex market prices, gasoline for August delivery rose 13.61 cents, or 7.3%, to $ 1.9911 a gallon (3.79 liters) and fuel heating increased 9.72 cents to $ 1.7685 a gallon. Natural gas for September delivery gained 19.5 cents to $ 3.743 1,000 cubic feet.
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The Associated Press correspondents Carlo Piovano in London and Alex Kennedy in Singapore contributed to this report.
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