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Investing.com – The much anticipated technical rebound in oil emerged on Friday after four days of losses in a row for U.S. crude and three for global benchmark Brent.<\/p>\n

The gains weren\u2019t enough though to erase the ferocity of the selloff sparked by the U.S. banking contagion and economic concerns, putting oil on the path to a third straight week in the red.<\/p>\n

New York-traded West Texas Intermediate, or , settled up $2.78,\u00a0 or 4.1%, at $71.34 a barrel. For the week, the U.S. crude benchmark was down around 7%, adding to two prior losses of 1.2% and 5.8%, respectively, for the weeks ended April 28 and April 21.<\/p>\n

\u201cWTI crude seems like it is ready to find a home comfortably above the $70 level, but oversupply fears for now should cap any rallies that get close to the $75 region,\u201d said Ed Moya, analyst at online trading platform OANDA.<\/p>\n

London-traded for July delivery rose for a second day in a row, gaining $2.69, or 3.9%, at $75.30. For the week, the global crude benchmark was down 5.3%, adding to prior weekly losses of 2.6% and 4.9%.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s rebound in oil came as data showed U.S. employers 253,000 jobs in April, way above economists\u2019 expectations. Strong jobs growth is always a plus for oil, whose consumption depends on peoples\u2019 mobility and economic vibrancy. In the case of the U.S. economy, however, strong jobs numbers have been a problem as they\u2019ve been adding to inflation since the end of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

The employment expansion in April was some 40% above the forecast growth of 180,000 and moved the a notch lower to 3.4% from a previous 3.5%, making it harder \u2014 at least in theory \u2014 for the Federal Reserve to stop raising .<\/p>\n

It has been a dramatic fall from grace for oil in just a month after the much glorified OPEC+ production maneuver that added almost $15 to a barrel in early April, after another round of selloffs then sent crude prices to 15-month lows.<\/p>\n

OPEC+, which groups the 13-member Saudi-led Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries with 10 independent oil producers, including Russia, announced in early April that it will cut a further 1.7 million barrels from its daily output, adding to an earlier pledge from November to take off 2.0 million barrels per day.<\/p>\n

OPEC+, however, has a history of over-promising and under-delivering on production cuts. While the group achieved over-compliance on promised cuts in the aftermath of the 2020 coronavirus breakout, experts say that was more a result of battered demand that led to minimal production, rather than a will to cut barrels as pledged.<\/p>\n

Probably sensing that the oil trade may not be as responsive to another production maneuver right away \u2014 OPEC+\u2019s next meeting is only in June, anyway \u2014\u00a0 the cartel\u2019s chief Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday a unilateral price drop of\u00a0 25 cents a barrel for Asian buyers of its oil.<\/p>\n

Moya said the Saudi price reduction to Asia, as modest as it was, \u201cconfirms slowdown fears.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the Saudis also raised the selling price of Arab light crude to North West Europe by $2.10 above the settlement of Brent to leverage on any lost income from the price drop of the past month. That showed the Saudis to be price-focused more than anything else, despite OPEC+\u2019s public protestations that its production cuts were about \u201cbalancing\u201d the market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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