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The U.S. Labor Department released its jobless claims figures on Thursday. The number of initial jobless claims in the week ending April 09 in the U.S. decreased by 13,000 to 253,000 from 266,000 in the previous week. The previous week's figure was revised down from 267,000.

Analysts had expected jobless claims to rise to 270,000.

Jobless claims remained below 300,000 the 58th straight week. This threshold is associated with the strengthening of the labour market.

Continuing jobless claims decreased by 18,000 to 2,171,000 in the week ended April 02.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) released its monthly report on Wednesday. OPEC's output rose by 15,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 32.25 million bpd in March, according to the report. The increase was mainly driven by higher output from Iran, Iraq and Angola, while production declined in UAE, Libya and Nigeria.

Iran's oil production rose by 15,000 bpd to 3.4 million bpd.

Supply from non-OPEC members is expected to fall by 730,000 bpd in 2016, 30,000 bpd more than expected last month.

Global oil demand is expected to climb by 1.20 million bpd in 2016, down by 500,000 bpd from March, OPEC noted.

"Economic developments in Latin America and China are of concern. There is great uncertainty as to whether weakening economic activity in Latin America and signals of a slowdown in China will be reflected in oil demand data, especially for China," OPEC said.

Demand for OPEC's crude is expected to by average 31.46 million bpd in 2016, down 60,000 bpd from March.

The Fed released its Beige Book on Wednesday. The central bank said that the U.S. economic activity continued to expand in late February and March across districts.

The economy expanded modestly or moderately in most districts, the Fed said.

The Fed noted that consumer and business spending rose, the labour market continued to strengthen, while prices increased modestly across the majority of districts.

Manufacturing and construction activity rose in most districts in late February and March.