MARKET WATCH: Oil drops below $80/bbl; gas price rises

Crude oil prices continued to fall Aug. 9 with crude dropping below $80/bbl despite a volatile rally across markets after Federal Reserve Bank officials surprised analysts by pledging to keep a near-zero benchmark interest rate until mid-2013.

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