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Market Roundup

Crude Oil prices fell yesterday, but a bounce by equity markets pulled crude futures well above lows and allowed traders to shrug off data showing combined U.S. crude and product stocks rose to the highest since weekly records began in 1990.

In Focus

- U.S. commercial crude and product stocks rose last week to the highest level since the U.S. government began tracking weekly data, government data showed Wednesday, a sign fuel supply is outpacing demand amid a slow U.S. economic recovery.

- China’s diesel exports...

The U.S. consumes about 23 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of natural gas a year, according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Agency (EIA). The Potential Gas Committee (PGC), an organization headquartered at the Colorado School of Mines, put the country’s potential natural-gas resources at 1,836 TCF in a biennial assessment released in June.

Natural-gas prices will rise next month for Columbia Gas of Ohio customers, but the rate will be at one of the lowest levels in years.

Columbia customers will pay 56 cents per 100 cubic feet of gas in November, before taxes and fees, up from 49 cents this month, the company said yesterday. But next month’s rate will be...