The price of oil in New York, the WTI, on Tuesday for the first time since February, before the shock of the pandemic, found the threshold of 50 dollars a barrel, the market anticipating an OPEC + agreement on the production of the month next.
Around 4:05 p.m. GMT (5:05 p.m. in Paris), a barrel of WTI for February was up nearly 5% from Monday’s close to $ 49.94, moments after hitting $ 50.05. That of Brent from the North Sea for delivery in March gained 4.33% in London, to 53.30 dollars.
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