After six straight days of losses, crude oil prices finally held their own on Friday as investors sat back at waited to see the outcome of a planned meeting between President Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
While holding steady though, crude oil prices still finished the week in a slump. Brent crude dropped 4.4% for the week while West Texas Intermediate crude fell even more—5.1%.
Brent crude gained 16 cents or 0.2% on Friday to settle at $66.59 a barrel.
West Texas Intermediate finished unchanged at $63.88 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Oklahoma energy stocks were split on Friday with NGL Energy Partners jumped more than 12% and Helmerich & Payne seeing a nearly 9% gain after the release of its earnings report while Mammoth Energy dropped more than 4%.
