Financial Times | Stocks mixed as oil hovers near $50 Financial Times West Texas Intermediate, the US oil marker, is down 0.3 per cent at $47.56 a barrel as Brent crude, the international benchmark, dips 0.5 per cent to $48.71, having earlier traded to within roughly 50 cents of the $50 mark for the first time since ... Markets Right Now: Higher Oil Prices Help Support Stocks |