Wall Street Journal | Oil Prices Rise as Global Outages Curb Supply Wall Street Journal Oil prices are pushing up, back toward $50 a barrel as outages keep curbing supplies. U.S. crude oil for July delivery was recently up 2.4% at $49.80 a barrel, but it had been down as much as 1.8% earlier. Brent, the global benchmark, gained 2.2% to ... Stumbling dollar, Nigeria sabotage push up oil prices Oil jumps 2% on Nigeria sabotage, US inventory data Oil prices rise with Brent at $50 on Nigeria, Canada outages |