Oil futures on major world trading floors after trades on April 21

/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, April 22, 09/ - By results of trades on April 21, 2009 oil futures made: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Change (in %) for ------------------------- since since Name Exchange 21.04.09 a day a month 2009 2008 ------------- ---------------- -------- ----- ------- ----- ----- Brent Forties Oseburg* ICE (London) 49.82 -0.1 -2.7 +6.2 -49.1 Light Sweet Crude Oil** NYMEX (New York) 46.51 +1.4 -8.9 +0.4 -53.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * June future price is considered ** May future price is considered Oil prices rose slightly after the increase of price quotations on the stock markets of the USA in New York. Investors reacted positively to the optimistic quarterly reports of the major industrial and retail companies such as United Technologies, Caterpillar and etc. Exchanges' data published in various information systems have been used to create this message. [2009-04-22]