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There goes oil ...

Myles Udland   

There goes oil ...
Stock Market1 min read

Crude oil is falling.

On Friday morning, the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil was down more than 2% to back below $60 a barrel.

Earlier this week, WTI was trading near its highest level since December, and since bottoming at $43 a barrel back in March, crude oil is up more than 40%. Later today, we'll get the latest update on US oil rig counts from Baker Hughes, with this number having declined by more than 50% since its October 2014 peak, though the decline has slowed in recent weeks.

Stocks were also little changed shortly after the market open on Friday after the S&P 500 closed at a new all-time high on Thursday.

Here's the drop in crude on Friday.

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