Business notebook

Oil drops: After falling as low as $69.30 a barrel, light sweet crude for June delivery settled at $69.94, down $2.34 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices had fallen $2.33 Wednesday after the weekly US Energy Department report showed a supply increase.

Bean counters: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. of Waterbury, Vt., is paying $104 million for all outstanding shares of Keurig Inc., a Wakefield maker of machines that brew single cups of coffee and other hot beverages. Green Mountain already owns about 35 percent of Keurig.

The end: The Securities and Exchange Commission has recommended ending a nearly yearlong inquiry into DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.'s earnings without taking enforcement action, the company said.

Oops: The Labor Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis now says Americans' personal income, which includes government payments as well as wages, rose by 0.5 percent in March from the previous month. On Monday, the government put the increase at 0.8 percent. The mistake involved payments related to the Medicare prescription drug plan.

Spyware: A federal court in New Hampshire has ordered Sanford Wallace of Barrington, N.H., to give up $4 million in ill-gotten gains. The Federal Trade Commission said he ran an operation that infected computers with software that caused pop-up ads. It then tried to sell antipop-up software for $30.

Spreading: Bausch & Lomb Inc., under pressure since authorities said its contact lens care products may be linked to a spate of serious eye infections in Asia and the United States, said a ''handful" of cases have also occurred in Europe.

FDA OK: Hologic Inc. received Food and Drug Administration clearance to use the DXA system as a predictor of cardiovascular disease. The Bedford company said doctors can now use the system to visualize abdominal aortic calcification.

(Globe wire services)