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Urgent: Oil prices extend gains amid supply forecast

Xinhua, April 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

Crude prices extended gains Thursday amid speculations that low price started to curb the surplus supply.

Light, sweet crude for May delivery gained 32 cents to settle at 56.71 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Endite