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Greece pulled the trigger and started marketing a seven-year euro benchmark on Thursday, its longest new trade since returning from market exile last July.

The sovereign announced the mandate on Monday, but a savage sell-off in equity markets and a volatile rates backdrop meant that it decided to hold off until conditions had calmed.

Surging shale oil production in Texas and North Dakota is being felt on trading desks in Chicago, Houston and New York, where a brisk business in West Texas Intermediate crude futures is far outpacing contracts for London-based Brent crude.

Russia's energy minister said on Sept. 22 that he was in favour of continuing cooperation with the OPEC oil cartel as their joint accord to cap output bears fruit in boosting the price of crude.

"We should keep the pace and definitely moreover follow through on the concerted action," Alexander Novak said at the start of a meeting of oil-producing countries in Vienna.

Ride-services company Uber is facing a divided board of directors and angry shareholders after investor Benchmark Capital filed a lawsuit against the company's ousted chief executive, Travis Kalanick, dealing another blow to the firm as it struggles to recover from a series of scandals and hire a new leader.

Oil prices hit a two-month high on Monday, lifted by a tightening U.S. crude market and the threat of sanctions against OPEC-member Venezuela, Reuters reported.

Brent crude futures, the international benchmark for oil prices, were at $52.67 per barrel at 0247 GMT on Monday, up 15 cents or 0.3 percent. Prices hit $52.76 per barrel earlier in the day, their highest since May 25.

Oil fell further towards $50 a barrel on March 27, pressured by uncertainty over whether an OPEC-led production cut will be extended beyond June in an effort to counter a glut of crude.

Oil prices continued to fall on Thursday after substantial losses the previous day, dragged down by a surge in US inventories.

The major benchmarks were down over a dollar with Brent crude trading at $51.87 per barrel. US West Texas Intermediate was at $49.05 during afternoon trading, falling below $50 per barrel for the first time since December.

The benchmark of the Greek stock market chalked up monthly gains of 4.53 percent in October, after Monday's session saw the majority of stocks swing from red in the morning to green in the afternoon, despite the negative mood on most other European bourses due to concerns over the US presidential race.