The West Texas Intermediate for March delivery increased 32 cents, or 0.44 percent, to settle at 72.57 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude for April delivery went up ...

The American Petroleum Institute is due to release weekly data on inventories Thursday. Analysts surveyed by S&P Global Commodity Insights, on average, look for U.S. crude inventories to show a rise ...