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Oil Futures Follow Broader Markets to One-Week High

Oil futures rose to a one-week high Friday, as broader markets rallied on positive U.S. economic data.Light, sweet crude for June delivery settled 86 cents, or 0.9%, higher at $96.02 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude on the ICE futures exchange settled 86 cents, or 0.8%, higher at $104.66 a barrel.Futures rose on the back of the stock market's rally, which was boosted by better-than-expected U.S. consumer data. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was recently up 0.9% at 1,664.66."There's definitely a bit of macro optimism," said Julius Walker, global energy markets strategist at UBS in New York. "There's a lot of uncertainty on the economic outlook in the U.S. and in general...in the absence of that certainty oil prices get buffeted around every time one of these headlines come out."A preliminary reading of the Thomson-Reuters/University of Michigan consumer-sentiment index for May rose more than expected Friday. Meanwhile, the Conference Board's Leading Economic In...

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