Список проголосовавших за комментарий " Morning Commodities: Crude extends yesterday's rally on headlines the Saudi oil minister discussed OPEC is mulling a potential production cut extension beyond June<ul><li><strong>Crude briefly broke above the $49.00/barrel resistance zone & remained on track to extend yesterday's gains on headlines the Saudi Oil Minister expressed OPEC is mulling an extension of the coordinated production cuts beyond June<br/> </strong><ul><li>April crude oil futures were up about $0.10 (+0.2%) around the $48.85/barrel level</li><li><strong>Baker Hughes rig count data will be released today at 1 pm ET.</strong></li><li>Recap of last week's data:<br/> <ul><li>Last week, the Baker Hughes total U.S. rig count increased by 12 to 768, following last week's increase of 2 rigs.</li><li><strong>Eight oil rigs were activated last week, taking the total to 617 and to the highest level since Sept 25, 2015.<br/> </strong></li><li>The gas rig count increased by 5 to 151 last week.</li><li>Last week marked the 8th consecutive week of oil rig count additions.</li></ul></li></ul></li><li><strong>Natural gas rallied following yesterday's sharp -2.3% post-EIA decline, remained on track to close -3% for the week</strong><ul><li>April natural gas futures were up about $0.03 (+0.9%) around the $2.93/MMbtu level</li></ul></li><li><strong>In precious metals, gold rallied to a fresh 2-week high in morning pit trading, on track to close up for the first week out of the past 3</strong><ul><li>April gold futures were up about $2.30 (+0.2%) around the $1229.50/oz level</li><li><strong>Reminder:</strong> The U.S. Federal Reserve delivered an interest rate increase by 25 bps earlier this week as widely anticipated, but did not alter its earlier forecast for a total of three rate increases this year.</li><li>May silver futures were up about $0.05 (+0.3%) around the $17.38/oz level</li></ul></li><li><strong>The dollar index was nearly flat, -0.1% around the 100.25 level<br/> </strong><ul><li>Commodities, as measured by the Bloomberg Commodity Index, rebounded from a 5-week low hit earlier in the morning, +0.2% around the 85.00 level</li></ul></li></ul>"