Baker Hughes reports rise in U.S. oil-rig count after three weeks of declines

Baker Hughes on Friday reported that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for oil rose for the first time in four weeks, by 6 to 750 this week. The total active U.S. rig count, which includes oil and natural-gas rigs, also climbed by 5 to 940, according to Baker Hughes. November West Texas Intermediate crude was up 7 cents, or 0.1%, from Thursday at $51.63 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, little changed from the level it traded at before the data.

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