WTI Crude increased 19 percent this week, settling at $29.43 per barrel. This a nine-week high for crude, but prices remain 53 percent below levels from a year ago. Heating oil values loosely followed, rising 2.4 percent for the week and reaching a four-week high. Heating oil prices are 56 percent lower than they were at this time last year.
Biodiesel’s most widely consumed feedstock, soybean oil, remained relatively stoic. Prices moved fractionally higher, closing at 26.58 cents per pound, which is 2.4 percent lower than last year. The bean oil/heating oil spread (BOHO) benefited from the rise in heating oil. The spread finished the week at $1.03 cents per gallon, down two cents from last week’s close.
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