– Fri, Jul 27, 2012NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil climbed for a fourth day on expectations of more efforts to fix the global economy.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange:
Benchmark crude rose 74 cents to finish at $90.13 per barrel.
Gasoline rose 7.4 cents to end the week at $2.8878 per gallon.
Heating oil rose 2.1 cents to finish at $2.8895 per gallon.
Natural gas fell by 9.5 cents to end at $3.01 per 1,000 cubic feet.
On the ICE Futures exchange in London:
Brent crude rose $1.21 to end at $106.47 per barrel.
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A teenager from Saratoga, California took home one of the top prizes at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair late last week after showing off her invention, which can fully charge a cell phone in 30 seconds or less. Eesha Khare was given the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award and a $50,000 prize for being runner-up in the competition, which was won by a 19-year-old who unveiled a new spin on self-driving car technology. Khare’s battery technology requires a new component to be installed inside the phone battery itself, and Intel notes that it also has potential applications for car batteries.
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