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  • SOURCE: | qwesa2big
  • flowoilflowOil prices rose by around 1 per cent on Friday, extending gains from the previous session on expectations that exporters could talk at an upcoming meeting about ways to prop up a market that continues to be dogged by a supply overhang.


    International Brent crude oil futures were trading at $46.40 per barrel at 0536 GMT, up 36 cents, or 0.8 per cent, and earlier hitting a three-week high at $46.66.

    U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $43.98 a barrel, up 49 cents, or 1.1 per cent, and touching their highest since July 25 at $44.17.

    Both price benchmarks rose more than 4 per cent on Thursday.

    Markets were pushed up as Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Khalid al-Falih said in a statement late on Thursday that oil producers would discuss potential action to stabilise oil prices during a meeting next month in Algeria.

    “Talk of production cuts in the oil market saw prices surge overnight,” ANZ bank said on Friday.

    An outlook published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) that said it expected the supply and demand balance to tighten towards year-end also supported prices.

    Traders said an 8.1 per cent drop in China’s oil output in July to a five-year low of 16.72 million tonnes also lifted prices because it would mean Asia’s biggest economy has to import more crude.

    Oil prices, however, are still some 12 per cent below their last peak in June as brimming storage tanks and production that exceeds consumption weighs on markets.

    Source: Reuters

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