Crude oil nudged above $60 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange Monday as stocks rallied on Wall Street.

Crude oil prices gained 19 cents from Friday to $60.07 per barrel. Heating oil prices lost 0.0203 cents to $1.5093 per gallon. Reformulated blendstock gasoline lost 0.009 cents to $1.646 per gallon. Natural gas prices dropped 0.017 cents to $3.339 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.