OIL FUTURES: Crude Ends +36c At $100.59/B Ahead Of Holiday Weekend - Wall Street Journal

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Light, sweet crude oil futures prices settled above $100 a barrel for the third straight day Friday, while gasoline futures gained for a sixth day on worries over new refinery outages ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, which kicks off the U.S. summer driving season.

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Refiners in Texas City, Texas, said they were restarting production units after experiencing the second city-wide power outage in as many months. Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO) and Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) said they were restarting units at their Texas City refineries, which lost ... A sprawling insider-trading investigation involving public-company employees who freelance as consultants has widened to include the top executives of Primary Global Research, a so-called expert-network firm at the heart of the probe.

OIL FUTURES: Crude Ends +36c At $100.59/B Ahead Of Holiday Weekend - Wall Street Journal