1. As heating oil prices rose this winter, a variety of Northeast lawmakers called on President Clinton to sell oil from the national reserve, but he resisted. 2. Heating oil rose as the U.S. Northeast braced for what could be its first big snow storm of the winter. 3. Heating oil rose to the highest price in more than three months on persistent concern U.S. inventories of will be uncomfortably low this winter. 4. Heating oil futures rose on concern that a combination of colder U.S. weather and rising exports to Europe will reduce already lean inventories. 5. Heating oil prices rose for a fourth day as cold-inspired demand in Europe threatened to attract supplies normally headed for the U.S. Northeast. 6. Heating oil rose as U.S. traders bought fuel at close to the lowest wintertime prices in two years as demand rises toward its annual peak. 7. Heating oil rose for the first time in seven days after a fire forced Citgo Petroleum Corp. to shut a refining unit used for making the fuel. 8. Heating oil rose for the first time in seven days after a fire forced Citgo Petroleum Corp. to shut a unit used for making heating oil. 9. In other Nymex energy markets, heating oil rose as the first cold snap of the season in parts of the U.S. raised demand for heating fuels. 10. In other markets, oil prices rose and corn and soybeans are expected to hold steady. |