Brent crude settled at $92.76 a barrel on Wednesday, up $1.27 or 1.39%, Reuters reports via The Star. The rise followed remarks by Iran's security chief that enriched nuclear material would not leave the country.
That settlement figure supplies the price level missing from our earlier entry. It also shows the day's gain at the close was smaller than the rise of about 2% reported during Wednesday trading.
US West Texas Intermediate settled at $86.53, up 49 cents or 0.57%, according to Reuters.
Prices fell in early Asian trade on Thursday. Market aggregator BigGo Finance put Brent down 1.2% at $91.62 and WTI down 1.2% at $85.49 as of 01:41 GMT. It cited hopes of peace between Russia and Ukraine and expectations that the Iran conflict will not escalate. These early Thursday figures have not been independently checked against Reuters or Bloomberg.