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Crude oil futures gain amid uplifting economic data
Apr 17, 2012 04:19 PM
Crude oil futures gained to their top price in 14 days on Tuesday, propelled upward by a debt auction in Spain exceeding its maximum target for bond sales, Bloomberg reports.
The energy commodity also benefited from the International Monetary Fund enhancing projections for global development and growth for this year and 2013. But gains were tempered by oil-rich Iran committing to continuing diplomatic discussions about its nuclear program.
"We're rebounding in large part because of the better-than-expected bond auction in Europe," vice president Phil Flynn with brokerage PFGBest in Chicago told the news source. "The spread is coming in a great deal because there's less concern about a cutoff of Iranian supply and the Seaway reversal was moved up a couple days."
At 2:50 p.m. on Tuesday, crude oil futures increased 0.06 percent, a 7 cent lift to $118.75 per barrel.
The Wall Street Journal reports the Seaway pipeline reversal, which was devised as a method of facilitating a surplus of the energy commodity in Oklahoma, will kick off crude deliveries to the Gulf Coast sooner than anticipated.
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