By Claudia Assis
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures turned higher Thursday as U.S. stocks opened slightly higher. Crude for July delivery CLN11 +0.28% , which had spent most of electronic trading in the red, added 36 cents, or 0.4%, to $100.68 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It had earlier traded as low as $99.25 a barrel. Gold futures pared their losses and at times bobbed to positive territory. Gold for August delivery GCQ11 -0.08% most recently declined $1.60, or 0.1%, to $1,541.50 an ounce on Nymex's Comex division.
