VIENNA – The basket of crude oil used as a benchmark indicator by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries fell to $71.61, the OPEC Secretariat said on Friday.
OPEC said the price of its basket went down by $0.49 on Thursday, compared with the closing price at the previous session.
The October delivery of Brent crude opened at $73.32 per barrel at the start of Friday’s trading on the futures market, a 0.17 percent decrease since the previous session’s close.
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