NEW YORK - Commercial bank stocks opened mixed Monday morning after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. made its second-quarter loss official and crude oil prices resumed their upward march.
Light, sweet crude for July delivery rose to $139.89 before retreating to trade up $3.90 at $138.76 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Lehman's $2.87 billion loss is its first since going public in 1994.
How shares of some commercial banks are trading:
National City Corp., down 7 cents to $5.08.
Wachovia Corp., down 21 cents to $17.98.
First Horizon National Corp., down 13 cents to $8.22.
Zions Bancorp., up 40 cents to $35.34.

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