Brent crude settled at $107.63 on Thursday, up 5.9%, its second close above $100 in two days and its highest since the spring; West Texas Intermediate rose 6.7% to $102.48. The US oil fund gained 5.6%.
And the energy sector — the eleven per cent of the S&P 500 whose business is selling that barrel — fell 0.6%, exactly as much as the index. On the fourtee…
