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NEW YORK: Oil fell 1% on Thursday after Reuters reported OPEC+ needed to address daily oversupply of more than 2 million barrels, and the number of US unemployment benefit claims rose unexpectedly, signalling a slow economic recovery.

Brent crude fell 47 cents, or 1%, to settle at $44.90 a barrel while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for September delivery ended the session 35 cents, or 0.8% lower, at $42.58 a barrel on the last day of trading. The more active October WTI contract ended down 29 cents, or 0.7%, at $42.82 a barrel.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, known an OPEC+, said on Wednesday the pace of the oil market recovery appeared to be slower than anticipated with growing risks of a prolonged second wave of the pandemic. Prices came under renewed pressure after Reuters reported that some OPEC+ members would need to cut output by an extra 2.31 million barrels per day (bpd) to make up for recent oversupply.

Global markets also turned sour as the number of new US claims for unemployment benefits rose back above 1 million last week. Oil prices have been largely rangebound since mid-June, with Brent trading from $40 to $46 per barrel and WTI between $37 and $43.

"The rebound in global economic activity which explained to some extent the firm oil price during May-June period has stalled ... the macro environment for crude oil continues to show weakness," said Georgi Slavov, head of global fundamental research at Marex Spectron.

However, crude exports from Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, extended a decline in June to the lowest on record, official data showed.

Wall Street also came under pressure after minutes on Wednesday from the Fed's latest policy meeting showed the labour market's swift rebound in May and June had likely slowed and that policymakers would stick with aggressive stimulus measures for a much longer period. "With attainment of a record S&P earlier this week, trends still favour higher prices across an array of asset classes and we continue to anticipate fresh multi-month oil price highs with the product markets advancing above such a threshold by next week," Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates, said.

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