Oil prices mixed; Brent eases as trade tensions weigh

Oil prices were mixed on Monday with U.S. benchmark WTI nudging higher after four weeks of declines, while Brent began the week lower as the fallout from trade tensions weighed on markets. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude (CLc1) futures were up 15 cents, or 0.2 percent, at $68.84 a barrel by 0309 GMT. Brent crude (LCOc1) futures fell 5 cents to $74.24 a barrel, after notching up a 1.7 percent weekly increase last week, the first gain in four weeks.

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