Business Oil Price Rises Above 2016 Budget Benchmark

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Global crude oil prices finally surpassed Nigeria’s budgetary benchmark on Monday, trading above $39 per barrels.

The price of Brent crude – the global oil benchmark – rose an all-year high at $39.50 on Monday, from $27.10 on January 20, the lowest for Brent in 2016, theCable reports.

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Last Friday, the price of Nigerian crude rose to a new record high, selling at $35.76 per barrel, the CBN has announced. Bonny light had traded around $35 at the start of the year and thereafter plunged into the 20s, following a global slump in crude oil prices.

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