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Global benchmark Brent crude topped $60 a barrel last month for the first time since July 2015, while West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. marker, is set for the highest close in two years as Saudi Arabia and Russia signaled support for extending supply cuts well into 2018. The market was also buoyed by conflict between the Iraqi central government and Kurdish forces that threatened crude production from northern fields in the OPEC nation. “U.S. stock draws have been leading and continue to lead the market higher,” said Olivier Jakob, managing director at Petromatrix GmbH in Zug, Switzerland. Click Read More below for additional information.

Raj Subramaniam, chief executive of the global e-commerce and transportation company, spoke in an interview with The New York Times, published on Sunday, about his approach to technology. "Truck unloading and truck loading are a very difficult problem for robotics to solve — packages come in every size, shape, and weight," he said. He added, "We're not looking for humanoid robots — we're looking for super humanoid robots, because maybe they need to have a couple of elbows. More degrees of freedom." The executive said that FedEx is still in the pilot stage for these robots, and was "not ready for prime time yet." Beyond humanoid robots, he said, FedEx was drilling down on AI, training on data from its 17 million deliveries daily around the world to predict delivery times for its customers accurately.