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Oil set for weekly gain on optimism ahead of US-China trade talks
Saturday, 10 May 2025 00:15 WIB | OIL |brent oil

Oil prices rose around 1% on Friday and were set for their first weekly gains since mid-April as a U.S. trade deal with United Kingdom turned investors optimistic ahead of talks between top officials from Washington and Beijing.

Brent crude rose by 61 cents, or 1%, to $63.45 a barrel by 12:29 p.m. ET (1629 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up 57 cents, or about 1%, at $60.48.

Week-over-week, both benchmarks were on track to rise about 4%.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that China should open up its market to the United States and that 80% tariffs on Chinese goods "seems right", a day after he announced a deal lowering tariffs on British car and steel exports, among other agreements with the United Kingdom.

"Energy markets - as bearish as they've been - are finally shaking off some of the pessimism and catching the broader market optimism that's showing back up as progress on trade relationships has begun," said Alex Hodes, oil analyst at brokerage StoneX.

The UK agreement and Trump's comments on China have raised hopes that similar deals could be reached between Washington and Beijing, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent set to meet with China's top economic official Vice Premier He Lifeng in Switzerland on May 10.

Current U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports stand at 145%.
"While prohibitively high, you can't knock the math ... 80% is substantially less than 145%," Hodes wrote to clients.

Chinese exports rose faster than expected in April while imports narrowed their decline, customs data showed on Friday, giving Beijing some relief ahead of the talks. [TRADE/CN]

Rising hostilities in the Middle East also boosted oil prices this week, Nikos Tzabouras, senior market analyst at trading platform Tradu said.

Israel's military said on Friday it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen towards its territory, just days after Oman mediated a ceasefire between the U.S. and Yemen's Houthis, who claimed responsibility for Friday's attack.

On Thursday, the U.S. imposed sanctions on a third Chinese independent oil refinery for purchases of Iranian crude, ahead of a fourth round of nuclear talks in Oman this
Keeping a ceiling to oil price gains this week was the planned increase to oil output by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, known collectively as OPEC+.

However, a Reuters survey found that OPEC oil output edged lower in April as production declines in Libya, Venezuela and Iraq outweighed a scheduled increase in output.

Source: Investing.com

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