RTRS: U.S. crude up $1 on fuel stocks drop, weak dollar
NEW YORK Oct 6 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures prices rose $1 on Wednesday, lifted by the dollar's slump and as oil investors focused on a drop in gasoline inventories last week reported by the government and shrugged off a build in crude oil stockpiles.
A strike by workers at France's top oil port has also provided lift to refined products cash and futures prices and the oil futures complex.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, November crude CLX0 rose 97 cents, or 1.17 percent, to $83.79 a barrel at 11:31 a.m. EDT (1531 GMT), trading from $82.29 to $83.84. (Reporting by Robert Gibbons)
