The data reflects positioning as of April 16 for futures and options contracts traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange and on the Nymex.
Mobile search increasingly can weave global positioningdata and profiles of a user's past searches to yield relevant, location-sensitive "contextual" results.
In the 1980s, the Federal Government opened up access to data from Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, which were previously for military use only.