Brent oil edges up, heads for weekly loss on slowdown worries

08 February 2019, News Wires — Benchmark Brent oil prices inched up on Friday but were heading for a weekly loss, pulled down by worries about a global economic slowdown, although OPEC-led supply cuts and U.S. sanctions against Venezuela provided crude with some support. Weighing on financial markets were concerns that a trade dispute between the … More »