Key Currency Exchange Rates for Friday, 12/01/17

American Dollar to Canadian Dollar = 0.734720; American Dollar to Chinese Yuan = 0.138010; American Dollar to Euro = 0.995171; American Dollar to Japanese Yen = 0.006774; American Dollar to Mexican Peso = 0.050361.

National Average Price for Regular Unleaded Current: $3.537; Month Ago: $3.553; Year Ago: $4.752. National Average Price for Diesel Current: $3.847; Month Ago: $3.917; Year Ago: $5.698.

Futures in New York were little changed, putting them on course for a 2.8 percent drop in February. An industry report was said to show U.S. oil inventories rose last week, which would be the fourth expansion in five weeks if confirmed in government data. The head of OPEC plans to dine with shale producers in Houston next week at a time when America is pumping at record levels and threatening the group’s efforts to curb a global glut. U.S. crude output is forecast to rise to a record level in February, stoking fears that shale producers may derail OPEC’s strategy of reducing output to clear a global glut. The producer group’s Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said he will meet with U.S. shale company executives for dinner on Monday in Houston, the second time he has met with some of the cartel’s top rivals.