Oil breaks out of weeklong price slide


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Oil broke out of a weeklong slump Friday, soaring 10 percent, as traders prepared for a long Presidents Day weekend.

Light, sweet crude for March delivery rose $3.53 to settle at $37.51 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices rose as high as $38.25 in afternoon trading.

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