NEW YORK: Oil prices rose nearly 4% on Monday, boosted by the expected slow return of U.S. crude output after last week's deep freeze in Texas shut in production.
U.S. producers shut anywhere from 2 million to 4 million barrels per day of oil output due to cold weather in Texas and other oil producing states, and the unusually cold conditions may have damaged installations that could keep output offline longer than expected.
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