Roundup: Oil prices / Lawmakers’ pet projects / Luxury home sales By Deanna B. Narveson - June 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailPrint $70 a barrel: The price of oil is on course this morning to close above $70 a barrel for the first time in two years, soaring on investors’ optimism that improving oil demand and a dwindling supply … Already an INSIDER? Sign in.