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Urgent: Oil prices extend gains despite rising inventories

Xinhua, January 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

Oil prices continued to rise Wednesday though U.S. supplies added last week.

The West Texas Intermediate for March delivery moved up 85 cents to settle at 32.3 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while Brent crude for March delivery increased 1.3 dollars to close at 33.1 dollars a barrel on the London ICE Futures Exchange. Endit