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Oil caps biggest monthly gain since April after OPEC pact

  Bloomberg Oil advanced, adding to the biggest monthly gain in five months, after OPEC agreed to its first output cut in eight years on Wednesday. Futures climbed 0.9 percent in New York as equities rose and the dollar retreated against its peers, bolstering the appeal of commodities. Crude surged 7.9 percent this month, providing the first September increase since ...

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Oil trade gives clearest sign yet Nigeria’s Forcados to return

  Bloomberg The oil market gave the clearest sign yet that Nigeria’s Forcados crude is about to flow again for the first time in eight months, after Royal Dutch Shell Plc was among companies said to have purchased the grade halted by militant attacks in February. Axion Energy Argentina SA, Pampa Energia SA, and Shell, operator of the Forcados export ...

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OPEC’s unexpected winner is the electric car

  Bloomberg Electric car makers may breath a sigh of relief from OPEC’s decision to curb oil output, which if it holds may help tilt the argument in favor of greener transport. Electric car sales stalled in the U.S. last year as gasoline prices fell 5.8 percent on average and demand for the motor fuel rose for the first time ...

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