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Crude oil futures finished 1.8 percent lower on Friday, finishing down $1.52, to close at $80.68 at the end of trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Prices for crude began the day down, in part because of mixed news from Europe. After a month of negotiations and various pledges of support, German officials said Thursday Greece should look to the International Monetary Fund for help with its debt.

It has acquired South Carolina munitions cleanup and environment remediation solutions provider Advent Environmental Inc., Versar Inc. said on Thursday.

Security and defense professional services company Versar announced the acquisition in a strategic move to strengthen its munitions response and unexploded ordinance cleanup capabilities.

Putting 151 Atlantic Newsprint employees out of work, Canada's first newspaper recycling plant closed on Friday after 19 years.

The facility in Whitby east of Toronto was no longer profitable with a major decline in demand for newsprint paper and the rise of the Canadian dollar to near-parity with the U. S. dollar, which made raw material costs more expensive, said company President John Cherry in a news release.

Provided the Pentagon gives the firm a fair chance at winning the contract, European aerospace giant EADS is poised to present a revised bid to build a multibillion aerial-refueling fleet for the U. S. Air Force. The announcement, the latest twist in a near decade long saga, comes a week after the firm pulled out of the contest, accusing the Pentagon of revising requirements to suit the competing bid of Boeing.

The annulment sparked a diplomatic fracas with senior European officials berating the United States for what they billed as an act of protectionism.

A recent poll has shown that almost half of the British public says they favor ending a policy forbidding public disclosure of the names of juvenile offenders.

An Angus Reid Public Opinion poll released on Friday said, in a survey of 2,003 British adults conducted online, 49 percent said they thought it was a bad idea to prevent the media naming juvenile offenders.

It was said by thirty-three percent that they were in favor of the policy.

Observers have said that U. S. President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, once bitter rivals for the presidency, have hammered out a good working partnership.

The News York Times said Friday that however that relationship has not yet approached the tight bonds and easy access Clinton's predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, enjoyed with President George W. Bush.