MARKET WATCH: Oil prices continue climbing

Oil prices continued to rally when trading resumed Jan 22 after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the US. The market was “emboldened by the promise of monetary stimulus in Japan and its possible attendant positive effect on other major oil consumers in the region,” said Marc Ground at Standard New York Securities Inc., the Standard Bank Group.

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