Natural gas slipped 2 cents to $3.25 per 1,000 cubic feet, heating oil fell 4 cents to $1.50 per gallon

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Natural gas slipped 2 cents to $3.25 per 1,000 cubic feet, heating oil fell 4 cents to $1.50 per gallon
and wholesale gasoline dropped 5 cents to $1.55 per gallon.
COMMODITIES: The price of gold rose $2.60 to $1,266.80 an ounce, silver slipped
9 cents to $17.27 per ounce and copper fell 3 cents to $2.57 per pound.
ENERGY SLUMP: Benchmark U. S. crude dropped $1.33, or 2.7 percent, to $48.29 per barrel, while
Brent crude, which is used to price international oils, dropped $1.24 to $51.17 per barrel.
TUNED IN: Comcast’s A-class shares rose 81 cents, or 2.1 percent, to $39.60 after rising revenue at theme parks it
acquired as part of its NBCUniversal purchase helped it to report stronger first-quarter results than expected.
The two-year Treasury yield two-year fell to 1.26 percent from 1.27 percent, while the 30-year Treasury yield held steady at 2.96 percent.
The French CAC 40 fell 0.4 percent, the German DAX slipped 0.1 percent and the FTSE 100 in London dropped 0.9 percent.

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