Oil ticks above $40 ahead of U.S. GDP data
(Reuters)
<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081223/2008_12_22t104831_450x329_us_markets_oil.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=JB_GxlWrtTKigif4K8unug--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="A customer fuels her car with unleaded petrol at a Morrisons supermarket in Coalville, central England, October 15, 2008. (Darren Staples/Reuters)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081223/bs_nm/us_markets_oil)Reuters - Oil prices crept above $40 a barrel on Tuesday, supported by short-covering and book-squaring ahead of key U.S. economic data.</p><br clear="all"/>
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