MARKET WATCH: Crude oil price climbs; natural gas price falls

As traders shrugged off a bearish government report of US oil inventories June 16, the front-month crude contract climbed to a 5-week high closing above $77/bbl. Natural gas, meanwhile, lost momentum, dropping 4% to below $5/MMbtu in the New York market.

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