Oil Driven Higher by Tight Supply Expectations

Oil Driven Higher by Tight Supply Expectations
Pumpjacks are seen during sunset at the Daqing oil field in Heilongjiang Province, China, on Aug. 22, 2019. Stringer/Reuters
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LONDON—Oil benchmark Brent hovered above $87 a barrel as crude prices looked set to set to snap a two-week losing streak on Friday, bouyed by expectations of tightening supplies.

Saudi Arabia is widely expected to extend a voluntary 1 million barrel per day (bpd) oil production cut into October, prolonging supply curbs engineered by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies, known collectively as OPEC+, to support prices.