VIENNA (dpa-AFX) – The price of crude oil from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has risen. As the OPEC Secretariat announced on Friday in Vienna, the basket price on Thursday was 98.07 US dollars per barrel (159 liters). That was 89 cents more than the day before. OPEC calculates this price based on the cartel’s most important varieties./jsl/jkr/stk

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