WTI & Brent added a few cents to settlement.....>

OIL: WTI & Brent added a few cents to settlement levels, leaving the metrics on

target for a second consecutive weekly loss, as Wednesday's larger than exp.

headline build in U.S. crude inventories nullified the effect of the escalation

in U.S.-Saudi tensions earlier in the week.

- On Thursday the WSJ noted that "rising crude oil inventories and increased

output in the U.S. could push oil prices down in the coming weeks, an internal

OPEC report said Thursday. A coming "seasonal scale back in refinery

demand...could result in oil stock builds," said an internal market report,

which was circulated late Thursday within the Organization of the Petroleum

Exporting Countries" and reviewed by The Journal.

- Baker Hughes rig count data will hit later Friday.