Oil Prices Rise

Posted June 22nd, 2011 at 4:25 pm (UTC-5)
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Here are the prices of some key commodities traded in New York on Wednesday:

Crude oil prices rose more than $1 to close at $95.41 a barrel.

Coffee futures rose a fraction of a cent to finish at $2.44 per pound.

Copper prices edged up a fraction of a cent to end at $4.09 a pound.

Cocoa futures gained $13 to end the day's trading at $3,040 a ton.

In Chicago trading, the price of wheat fell 36 cents to a seven-month low of $6.38 a bushel.

Rice prices dropped 23 cents to end at $14.63 per hundredweight.