After U.S. inflation data came in on Thursday at its hottest in 40 years, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said he wanted a full percentage point of interest rate hikes by July 1
Brent crude futures gained 49 cents, or 0.5%, to $91.27 a barrel by 1:41 p.m. EST (1841 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 1 cent to $89.35 a barrel
Brent crude futures rose 23 cents, or 0.3%, to $91.01 a barrel by 0122 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $89.47 a barrel, up 11 cents, or 0.1%.
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Brent crude settled down 58 cents, or 0.6%, at $92.69. It session high of $94 was the highest since October 2014.
Brent crude was down 23 cents, or 0.25 percent, at $93.04 by 9.45 isT, having earlier touched its highest since October 2014 at $96
The high spirits on the budget were short-lived as the global concerns have began weighing on equities.
US President Joe Biden's administration on Friday restored sanctions waivers to Iran to allow international nuclear cooperation projects
Other Asian grades jumped by between 40 and 70 cents a barrel. US prices were increased by 30 cents
Oil powered toward a seventh straight weekly gain as investors zeroed in on a fast-tightening global market and geopolitical tensions
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The company had already pledged to give back to investors $5.5 billion of the cash proceeds from the sale of its Permian-basin oil assets.
U.S. private payrolls fell for the first time in a year in January, raising the risk of a sharp decline in employment that would deal a temporary setback to the labour market.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies, together known as OPEC+, has been expected to decide at a monthly meeting on Wednesday to keep gradually increasing production
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The most-active Brent contract, for April delivery, was trading at $89.62, up $1.1 or 1.2%.
The high prices mean pressure on OMCs to raise domestic auto fuel prices, a move that has been kept in abeyance in light of looming assembly elections in five states
The US Federal Reserve has indicated that they will begin hiking interest rates in the near future and that there will be multiple rate hikes this year.
Brent futures rose $1.93, or 2.2%, to settle at $88.20 a barrel