Oil prices rallied Tuesday to finish at their highest level in more than week. Talk of progress toward a more balanced market from OPEC, Saudi Arabia’s pledge to cut exports and a hurricane-induced slowdown in U.S. production fed the first back-to-back session climb for U.S. prices since late September. November WTI crude rose $1.34, or 2.7%, to settle at $50.92 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange-the highest since Sept. 29.
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