Oil steadied as traders monitored India’s buying of Russian crude and Ukrainian attacks on its neighbor’s energy infrastructure.
Brent crude traded below $64 a barrel after posting its first back-to-back weekly gain since August, while West Texas Intermediate was near $60. Russian President Vladimir Putin last week promised “uninterrupted shipmentsBloomberg Terminal of fuel” to India, which will likely be a key point for discussions as US negotiators arrive in the South Asian nation for trade talks.