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aflac, aflac, aflac, aflac, aflac find out more at... aflac! for business.com and the duck says...> you are looking at close to the last trades here in the oil pits. we'll be closing in just about two minutes or so. oil had dipped below $69 a barrel. today pressured by a bit of strength in the dollar. we have come back up. one of the issues to watch is the curve right now. tomorrow we've got the october contract coming off of the books, and we will be trading november as of wednesday. the november contracts here fighting to get back up to that $70 a barrel mark. a lot of traders say that there's -- this market wants to go higher. at this point we're waiting to look for direction between stocks and equities. as far as gold, although gold did close lower on the session, a seventh straight session where it closed above $1,000 an ounce, and the tenth straight session where we have been trading above there. erin, every other time we have made a run to $1,000 we have come back quickly. it seems to be holding in here. >> thank you very much. nigeria is the fifth biggest supplier of oil to

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