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Oil prices rise in ‘very thin’ trading

NEW YORK — The price of oil rose sharply Wednesday on higher US home prices and hopes of a budget deal in Washington.

US benchmark crude jumped $2.37, or 2.7 percent, to finish at $90.98 per barrel in thin post-Christmas trading in New York.

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