New York-New York Mercantile Exchange December crude futures settled $1.90 lower at $80.44/b November 17, shrugging off an inventory decline as a plunge in heating oil values weighed on the entire oil complex. December heating oil futures fell to their lowest level in two weeks at $2.2383/gal. The contract settled 5.71 cents lower at $2.2519/gal. December RBOB bucked the downward trend and settled 22 points higher at $2.1579/gal.
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