Confrontation in the Persian Gulf .

Crude oil traded at $64.12 a barrel at 6:24 p.m. in New York Mercantile Exchange electronic trading, up $1.19 from the day's settlement price of $62.93. The settlement price is set after the close of floor trading at 2:30 p.m. New York time. Transactions after 6 p.m. are considered part of the next-day's trading.
Brent crude oil for May settlement rose 19 cents, or 0.3 percent, to close at $64.60 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures exchange, the highest close since Dec. 1.