MARKET WATCH: Crude oil prices dive in unexplained selloff

The front-month crude oil contract fluctuated within a $5/bbl range Sept. 17 in the New York market before dropping 2.4% at closing, perhaps partly on unsubstantiated rumors of an imminent release of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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