Oil extends gains after US inflation data pushes Wall Street to lift Fed rate cut bets; Brent stays above $85/bbl
Crude oil prices extended gains on Thursday, July 11, keeping the Brent crude benchmark above the $85 per barrel-mark, after Wall Street experts lifted bets on interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve. This came after US government data showed an unexpected slowdown in consumer price-based (CPI) inflation. Brent crude futures were up 23 …
