Oil Rises for First Time in Four Days
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Oil advanced, trimming a weekly decline, as the jobless rate dropped to its lowest level in four years in the U.S., the world’s largest consumer of crude.
West Texas Intermediate futures increased as much as 0.8 percent, reversing an earlier loss of 0.5 percent. Employment climbed by 146,000 in November and the unemployment rate fell to