Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Oil climbs above $76 on mixed US inventory; outage

(Reuters) - Oil extended gains above $76 on Thursday, as traders shrugged off rising U.S. gasoline inventories and focused on a drop in crude stocks at the delivery point for the New York Mercantile Exchange futures contract.

The price recovery after three days of falls was also attributed to an outage at the largest oil refinery in Britain and the possibility of strong fund buying.


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