Crude oil prices fell to nearly $59 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange Monday as a slide in prices headed into its fifth week.

Crude oil prices lost 61 cents from Friday, dropping to $59.28 per barrel. Heating oil prices lost 0.026 cents to $1.5075 per gallon. Reformulated blendstock gasoline lost 0.0155 cents to $1.635 per gallon. Natural gas prices dropped 0.118 cents to $3.255 per million British thermal units.

At the pump, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $2.529 Monday, down from Sunday's $2.537 a gallon, AAA said.