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Crude oil prices jumped Thursday to more than $117 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange in spite of a large gain in U.S. stockpiles.

Just a few energy speculators control large portions of the oil market, a U.S. regulator said. On June 6, the day oil prices jumped $11 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Pemex has launched a tender to lease four offshore platforms for the Gulf of Mexico as the company ramps up drilling activity, the company said Tuesday.

Exxon was the top bidder on the latest Gulf of Mexico Western Lease Sale organized this week by the U.S. Interior Department, underlying the company's interest in becoming a bigger player in the region.

Oil supplies meet and may slightly exceed current world demand, Iraqi oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani said at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday.

Crude surged more than 5 U.S. dollars a barrel Thursday on geopolitical tensions in europe and a falling dollar.

Tech Data Corp., a distributor of IT products, saw net income and sales grow despite challenges in its global macro-economic environment. (TECD)

Video game and entertainment retailer GameStop Corp. saw its second quarter profit climb 162.1 percent on increases in video game sales and comparable-store sales. (GME)

Burger King Holdings posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday. (BKC)

This year's Inc. 5000, Inc. magazine's list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the country, includes 15 Triad companies.