MARKET WATCH: Crude oil prices, inventories decline

The front-month crude oil contract price continued its recent seesaw pattern, down a modest 0.4% Dec. 29 in the New York market as investors face another January—“ a month which has seen increases in oil stockpiles in each of the last 4 years,” said analysts in the Houston office of Raymond James & Associates Inc.

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