Key Highlights
- West Texas Intermediate crude was at $57.56 a barrel, up 14 cents.
- Russia and Ukraine have traded allegations of attacks on civilians on New Year's Day despite the intensive talks overseen by U. S.
- President Donald Trump that are aimed at bringing an end to the nearly four-year-old war.
- Kyiv has been intensifying strikes against Russian energy infrastructure in recent months, aiming to cut off Moscow's sources of financing for its military campaign in Ukraine.
- And in the latest action by President Trump's administration to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Washington on Wednesday imposed sanctions on four companies and associated oil tankers it said were operating in Venezuela’s oil sector.
