New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in May, gained 16 cents to $88.88 a barrel, while Brent North Sea crude climbed back above the $100 mark after falling to a nine-month low the day before.
The Brent contract for June delivery was up 39 cents to $100.30 in morning trade in Asia. It had slumped to $98 per barrel yesterday, its lowest point since July 11, 2012.
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"These figures were a relief to the market, after having seen a run of downbeat macroeconomic numbers."
US industrial production slowed in March but over the first quarter posted its biggest gain in a year, central bank data released yesterday showed. For the first three months of the year, output surged at an annual rate of 5%, the strongest increase since the first quarter of 2012.
Prices had taken a tumble at the start of the week on weak Chinese economic data, which suggested that the world's second largest economy was not growing as fast as expected.
China's gross domestic product slowed to 7.7% in the first quarter of this year, coming in below market expectations.
China is the world's biggest energy-consuming nation and the health of its economy is closely watched by the oil market.
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