Crude oil prices bounced around but closed...
Crude oil prices bounced around but closed higher following reports of unrest in Central America. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, contracts for April delivery of West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark U.S. crude, rose 32 cents to settle at $16 per 42-gallon barrel. The April price of crude jumped as high as $16.18 a barrel and sank as low as $15.75 during the session amid reports of an attempted coup in Panama and of a Nicaraguan attack on Contra rebels in Honduras.
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