Key Currency Exchange Rates for Friday, 9/22/23

National Average Price for Regular Unleaded Current: $3.400; Month Ago: $3.153; Year Ago: $3.446. National Average Price for Diesel Current: $4.053; Month Ago: $3.948; Year Ago: $4.377.

West Texas Intermediate futures added 0.4 percent. Iraqi Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said there’s support in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to deepen output curbs by about 1 percent. Still, Iraq has failed to deliver the supply cuts it committed to under the current agreement. U.S. refiners are delaying scheduled maintenance as they resume operations after Hurricane Harvey, supporting demand for crude. Iraq’s suggestion “has a minor influence on prices -- if it would have come from Saudi Arabia, it would probably have had a bigger impact,” said Giovanni Staunovo, an analyst at UBS Group AG in Zurich. Click Read More below for more of the story.

National Average Price for Regular Unleaded Current: $2.159; Month Ago: $2.117; Year Ago: $2.573. National Average Price for Diesel Current: $2.460; Month Ago: $2.371; Year Ago: $2.999.