Kristen Schwab

U.S.

markets were closed today in observance of the Memorial Day holiday.

So let's talk oil prices, which reacted to the latest negotiations of a deal on the Iran war.

Brent crude slid roughly 5% to a two-week low of about $98 a barrel.

Gas prices dipped slightly to a national average of $4.50 a gallon.

AAA estimated that 39 million people would be traveling by car throughout the three-day weekend, a slight increase from last year.

In international markets, Japan's Nikkei rose 2.9%, France's CAC 40 picked up 1.2%, and Germany's DAX surged 2%.

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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is going through a lot of changes.

And those changes vary depending on where people live.

By the end of the year, more than a dozen states are expected to implement their own restrictions on what recipients can purchase.

And while most SNAP dollars are spent at grocery stores, about a

Marketplace's Carla Javier looks into how changes to Snap might impact these businesses.

Moto, Inc.

operates 84 convenience stores and gas stations, mostly in the Midwest.

The company's president, Rob Forsyth, says almost all of their locations accept Snap.

And he's generally supportive of the reasoning behind restricting the use of those food benefits to buy sodas and candy.

While some states have provided lists of specific products that can't be bought with SNAP dollars, others haven't, which leaves retailers going through their inventories, comparing ingredient lists to their state's definition of restricted goods.