Los Angeles Times | Oil and banks lift the Dow to new highs, but other stock indexes fall Los Angeles Times ENERGY: Oil prices continued to rise and reached their highest since mid-October. Benchmark U.S. crude was up $1.57, or 3.2%, to $51.01 a barrel in New York; it jumped 9.3% on Wednesday. Brent crude, the standard for pricing international oils ... Dow reaches record as rising oil pulls stocks mostly higher |