WTI Crude Steady After Longest Advance in 3 1/2 Months
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West Texas Intermediate oil was little changed following its longest rally in 3 1/2 months before data expected to show an increase in U.S. employment.
Futures fell 3 cents in New York after climbing 0.1 percent earlier. They advanced a fifth day yesterday, the longest increase since August, after the Census Bureau said U.S. gross domestic product expanded at a 3.6 percent annual rate in the third quarter. Employers probably added 185,000 workers to non-farm payrolls last month and unemployment slid to match a five-year low, economists said before separate data to be published by the Labor Department today.