WTI crude oil prices settled above $80 per barrel, yesterday, for the first time in several days. There are supportive factors beyond the din of the euro zone mess and, generally, poor economic data. A strike by Norwegian oil workers that is rapidly becoming intractable, work on an Iraqi oil field, and an executive shake-up, to put it lightly, at Nigeria’s national oil company are helping to support oil prices for now.
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