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Oil tops $108 a barrel as jobless rate falls
Oil prices hit a new 30-month high on Friday after the world's top two oil consumers, the U.S. and China, issued positive economic reports that pointed to increased demand.The U.S. said its economy added 216,000 new jobs last month and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.8 percent, a two-year low. Adding jobs tends to push oil prices higher since it implies that more workers will fill their tanks for
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