A 'virtual' oil price gain

The front-month contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes traded as high as $80/bbl before closing at $79.36/bbl Dec. 31, 2009, in what many described as a 78% price jump during 2009 and its biggest surge since 1999 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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