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NEW YORK: Oil prices rose added than 2 percent on Friday on abutment from the continuing tensions over Iran's acknowledged nuclear affairs and the abeyant for accumulation disruptions in the arena forth with the weaker dollar.

Crude futures acquaint bordering account losses, but were up on Friday afterwards crumbling the antecedent affair on account the United States and Britain were advancing a absolution from cardinal oil affluence afterwards this year.

The dollar angled afterwards a address on U.S. customer prices, which investors beheld as abbreviation the likelihood of the Federal Reserve abbreviating budgetary action anytime soon.

U.S. customer prices rose the best in 10 months in February as the amount of gasoline spiked, but there was little assurance that basal aggrandizement pressures were building.

"The acumen is that the Fed will not be as acceptable to cull aback on bang or accession absorption rates, so the dollar attenuated and that pushed up oil, forth with the ambiguity about Iran and the SPR," said Phil Flynn, analyst at PFGBest Research in Chicago.

U.S. gasoline and heating oil additionally rose sharply, tagging forth as Brent awkward confused college and additional by account that Enterprise Articles Partners (EPD.N) shut a U.S. Gulf Coast-to-Midwest aesthetic articles activity because of a valve leak.

Brent May awkward rose $3.21 to achieve at $125.81 a barrel, surging aloft its 20-day and 10-day affective averages and extensive $126.10 advanced of the close. For the week, Brent fell a bald 17 cents.

U.S. April awkward rose $1.95 to achieve at $107.06 a barrel, extensive $107.25 and additionally blame aloft its 10-day and 20-day affective averages. For the week, U.S. awkward biconcave 34 cents.

Brent's exceptional to U.S. crude, now comparing May contracts, concluded at $18.23 a butt based on settlements.

Trading volumes in both affairs were lackluster. Brent's aggregate was 34 percent beneath its 30-day average, with U.S. awkward 27 percent beneath its 30-day average, with beneath than two hours larboard for post-settlement trading.

Oil briefly akin assets on account that Saudi Arabia is advancing to extend this year's abrupt billow in oil sales to the United States.

Contrary to expectations that the bashful contempo acceleration in Saudi Arabia's achievement was apprenticed for fast-growing Asian markets that additionally ability charge to alter barrels from Iran, basic abstracts shows that shipments to the United States accept after alarum risen 25 percent to the accomplished akin back mid-2008.