01/15 Closing Prices / revised 01/16/2026 10:59 GMT | 01/15 OPEC Basket Price $62.77 -1.30 cents | 01/15 Mexico Basket (MME)  $53.30 -.2.77 cents  11/14 average (Oct) Venezuela Basket (Merey)  $ 47.51   -1.05 cents | 01/15 NYMEX Light Sweet Crude  $59.19 -$2.83 cents | 01/15 ICE Brent  $63.76 – 2.76 cents 01/15 RBOB Gasoline NY Harbor 06/06  $1.7838 0.0466 cents | 01/15 Heating Oil NY Harbor  $2,2083 -0.0736 cents | 01/15 NYMEX Natural Gas  $3.128 +0.008 cents | 01/09 Baker Hughes Rig Count (Oil & Gas)  544 -2 | 01/16 USD – Dollar/MXN  17.6511 (data live) 01/16 EUR – USD  $1.1614 (data live)  01/16 US/Bs. (Bolivar) Bs 341,74250000 (data BCV) (Parallel Bs. 481.00-617.00-estimated) Source: WTRG/MSN/Bloomberg/MarketWatch/Reuters/larepublica.pe, Zelle, cash, transfer.

Year: 2025

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