Key Currency Exchange Rates for Friday, 9/17/21

National Average Price for Regular Unleaded Current: $3.808; Month Ago: $3.824; Year Ago: $3.751. National Average Price for Diesel Current: $4.463; Month Ago: $4.203; Year Ago: $5.040.

American Dollar to Canadian Dollar = 0.800388; American Dollar to Chinese Yuan = 0.154314; American Dollar to Euro = 1.185789; American Dollar to Japanese Yen = 0.009086; American Dollar to Mexican Peso = 0.050218.

Futures in New York rose as much as 1.3 percent after climbing the most in eight months on Tuesday. President Donald Trump has intensified preparations for a response to a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, a move that could place the U.S. in direct conflict with Russian forces. While the Middle East country’s own oil production is limited, prices often respond to the risk of war in a region that holds almost half of the world’s crude reserves. “The focus is on the West’s probable military strike against the Syrian regime,” said Carsten Fritsch and Eugen Weinberg, analysts at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. Click Read More below for additional information.