Oil prices are softening a touch on Thursday morning after better than expected US manufacturing data triggered a boost in the previous session, despite a large rise in crude inventories, players said.
The front month contract for Brent North Sea crude oil was last changing hands down USD 0.16 at USD 76.19/bbl on the ICE platform. On Wednesday, the Brent contract closed up USD 1.71 at USD 76.35/bbl, following trades in a USD 74.42-76.76/bbl range, while the WTI October contract on Nymex gained USD 1.99 to end the day at USD 73.91/bbl.
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Donnerstag, 2.09.2010, 08:39 Uhr
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