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The weekly Baker Hughes rig count rises by 5 in the current week
The weekly Baker Hughes rig count rises by 5 in the current week. The weekly Baker Hughes rig count showed: Oil up 1 to 455 Natural gas up 4 to 128 Total rigs +5 to 593. Versus a year ago, the Oil is up from 412, Natural gas is up from 122
The weekly Baker Hughes rig count rises by 5 in the current week. The weekly Baker Hughes rig count showed: Oil up 1 to 455 Natural gas up 4 to 128 Total rigs +5 to 593. Versus a year ago, the Oil is up from 412, Natural gas is up from 122
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The weekly Baker Hughes rig count rises by 5 in the current week. The weekly Baker Hughes rig count showed: Oil up 1 to 455 Natural gas up 4 to 128 Total rigs +5 to 593. Versus a year ago, the Oil is up from 412, Natural gas is up from 122
The weekly Baker Hughes rig count rises by 5 in the current week
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The weekly Baker Hughes rig count rises by 5 in the current week. The weekly Baker Hughes rig count showed: Oil up 1 to 455 Natural gas up 4 to 128 Total rigs +5 to 593. Versus a year ago, the Oil is up from 412, Natural gas is up from 122
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The weekly Baker Hughes rig count showed: Oil up 1 to 455 Natural gas up 4 to 128 Total rigs +5 to 593. Versus a year ago, the Oil is up from 412, Natural gas is up from 122 and total is up from 539. Crude oil is trading at $82.19, up $0.94 of the day. THe high reached $82.99. The low was at $80.71. was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.
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Global: 0 · Market: 0 · Urgency: 0 · Confidence: 0 · Neutral
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- USOIL: Price snapshot pending · T-15m / T0 / T+15m / T+60m
- NG: Price snapshot pending · T-15m / T0 / T+15m / T+60m
- DJP: Price snapshot pending · T-15m / T0 / T+15m / T+60m
- FX: Price snapshot pending · T-15m / T0 / T+15m / T+60m
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- Follow-through after T+15m / T+60m
- Relative reaction in oil
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