Oil leads the way up

Oil prices continued to rally in April as sentiment improved further on the back of hopes that the oil market will rebalance later in the year. Indeed, better economic data out of China supported the prices of most energy commodities. A slight weakening in the US dollar has also helped to boost prices.

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