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Pressured by USDA reports on supplies and production, Prices were mostly lower at the close Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Corn was off 1 to off 2 1/4, Soybeans were up 7 1/4 to up 13, wheat was off 10 1/2 to off 11 1/4 and oats were up 7 1/2 to up 8 1/2.

Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan is really following the footsteps of his father Amitabh Bachchan as he has won the 'Best Anchor Male Award 2010' for his debut TV show 'National Bingo Night' in Colors.

Raavan, the latest release of junior Bachchan, failed to woo as many viewers as predicted.

The flick could not make it big at the box office but the actor got noticed as an anchor for the game show.

Ashwini Yardi, the programming head of Colors, gave the award to Abhishek at the event help in Mumbai.

Posting a 65-cent gain to $76.09 per barrel, Crude oil prices closed on Friday trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange on a high note.

It has been reported that Crude prices were reacting to news that demand looked positive and U. S. supplies were down. The Energy Information Administration said Thursday U. S. crude oil supplies dropped by 5 million barrels in the week ending July 2.

Natural gas also finished the week's trading up, finishing at $4.415, up 0.016 cents, per British thermal unit.

Canadian scientists have discovered that females who are suffering from the most dangerous form of angina are three times as likely to have severe coronary artery disease (CAD) as males with the same condition.

Boffins analyzed the records of 23,771 sufferers referred for first diagnostic angiography over a six-year period.

They discovered that females aged over 60 with CCS Class IV angina (as defined by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society) confronted a 21% higher absolute risk of developing CAD as compared to males.

Closing up at the end of trading on Friday, the major U. S. stock indexes finished the week in positive territory.

Finishing the day at 10,198.03, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 59.04 points, up 0.58 percent.

Picking up 21.05 points, 0.97 percent, the Nasdaq ended trading at 2,196.45 points.

The Standard & Poors 500 added 7.71 points, 0.72 percent, and closed at 1,077.96 points.

The Wall Street Journal has reported that the DJIA finished the week up 5.3 percent, its best performance since the week ending July 17, 2009.

According to a company announcement, Boeing hand-delivered its bid on Friday to be the prime contractor for new Air Force aerial refueling tankers.

The Boeing bid on the $35 billion tanker replacement program was submitted to the KC-X program office at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, just one day after competitor EADS North America turned theirs in.