Brent shows a maximum daily increase since August

Yesterday in London in the course of  trading on the ICE stock exchange the price of the North Sea Brent blend demonstrated a record percentage growth per day for six months, since August of the previous year.

At the close of the previous session, a barrel of Brent cost $29.70, by the end of Friday's trading the price rose to $32.18 per barrel. The March futures rose in price by 8.35%, according to the data of the site Investing.com. In the absolute measurement the gain was $2.53 per barrel, RBC writes.