Oil futures lost more ground Friday after Baker Hughes showed that the weekly number of active U.S. rigs drilling for crude rose by 9 to 325 as of Friday. The total U.S. rig count climbed by 4 to 408. July crude was at $48.35 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down 82 cents, or 1.7%, from Thursday’s settlement. It was trading at $48.70 before the data.
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