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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are up again today as higher oil prices give energy companies a lift. The gains were modest, however, as investors have been avoiding big moves. The Dow Jones industrial average picked up 24 points, or 0.1 percent, to 18,598. The Standard & Poor's 500 added 5 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,187. The Nasdaq composite rose 11 points, or 0.2 percent, to 5,240.
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices are continuing to rebound. Benchmark U.S. crude gained $1.43, or 3.1 percent today, closing at $48.22 a barrel in New York. Meanwhile, Brent crude, used to price international oils, rose $1.04, or 2.1 percent, to $50.89 a barrel in London.
CHICAGO (AP) — Four groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union are asking Walgreens for reassurance that the drugstore's partnership with a Catholic system to run in-store clinics in the St. Louis area won't limit access to birth control. SSM Health, a St. Louis-based Catholic system, owns 27 clinics in Walgreens stores in Missouri and Illinois. The clinics open later this month. Walgreens referred questions to SSM Health.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A group of law professors and lawyers for the federal government say a U.S. judge in Wyoming was wrong to block rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal land. The judge ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management lacks the authority to regulate fracking. The government filed a brief last week with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing the BLM may enact rules requiring companies to disclose what they're injecting.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Jurors have convicted two people of making up fake clients to sue BP following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but the jury acquitted a Texas lawyer and four others. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney in southern Mississippi says the verdicts were delivered today. Jurors convicted Gregory Warren and Thi Houng "Kristy" Le on 66 charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and identity theft.
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