MARKET WATCH: Crude oil prices climb in first 2012 market session

Having posted a loss on the last trading day of 2011 after a failed effort to break the $100/bbl barrier, oil prices soared Jan. 4 in the first trading session of 2012 to just short of $103/bbl on the New York market.

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