NYMEX crude falls $2.01/b on profit-taking

摘要

New York—NYMEX April crude futures settled$2.01/b lower at $106.55/b February 28,retreating from a recent nine-month high asbearish US economic data sparked a wave ofprofit-taking.March heating oil settled 6.26 cents lowerat $3.2238/gal and March RBOB dropped8.82 cents to settle at $3.0401/gal.A drop in new orders for US manufactureddurable goods in January sparked profit-takingas new long positions exited the market, saidGene McGillian, analyst at Tradition Energy.