The price of Brent crude, the global benchmark, was trading at $64.6 per barrel by mid-afternoon, while West Texas Intermediate Crude stood at $61.7 per barrel.
Seminole, West Texas, is at the center of what is threatening to become America's largest measles outbreak in a quarter-of-a-century. There's little sign the disease is slowing down.
A second school-age child who was hospitalized with measles is the third measles-related death in the U.S. since the virus started in West Texas in January.
A second school-aged child in West Texas has died from a measles-related illness, a hospital spokesman confirmed Sunday, as the outbreak continues to swell.