The barrel of oil registers gains in New York and London

The barrel of crude oil was trading upwards today in its values ​​in the international markets of New York and London, in the same way as the OPEC basket of values.

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude, which operates in the New York futures market (Nymex), rose 5.41% this morning and was trading at US $ 26.69 a barrel in contracts with delivery in May.

Similarly, Brent oil from the North Sea, which does it in the London electronic market (ICE), climbed 10.32 %% and the barrel was agreed to US $ 32.03, also in contracts for May, according to the Bloomberg agency.

For its part, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) reported that its crude oil basket was trading yesterday at US $ 18.93 a barrel, compared to US $ 16.87 on Wednesday, which represented an increase of 12 ,twenty-one%.