MARKET WATCH: Crude oil prices, Bernanke's speech both flat

Crude oil traded flat and natural gas inched up slightly Aug. 25 in the New York market as deceptively powerful Hurricane Irene neared the East Coast and analysts waited to hear what Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke would say in a much-anticipated speech at Jackson Hole, Wyo.

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