The Associated Press
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery fell 7 cents to $37.26 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for November delivery dropped 22 cents to $39.61 a barrel.
Wholesale gasoline for October delivery rose 1 cent to $1.11 a gallon. October heating oil was little changed at $1.09 a gallon. October natural gas rose 4 cents to $2.31 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Gold for December delivery rose $15.80 to $1,963.70 an ounce. Silver for December delivery rose 50 cents to $27.36 an ounce and December copper rose 3 cents to $3.07 a pound.
The dollar fell to 105.72 Japanese yen from 106.11 yen. The euro rose to $1.1865 from $1.1831.
Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
Long before the shale revolution, a vital contributor to U.S. oil production were stripper wells, small holes producing trickles of crude with the aid of iconic pumping machines known as nodding donkeys, such as the one shown here in 2012 in Los Angeles. With oil prices down 57 percent since June, these smallest of producers will be the first to succumb to the Great Oil Bust of 2015.CREDIT: Bloomberg News photo by Patrick T. Fallon).