For now a short-term range mentality may develop, with day traders selling the top of the range and buying the bottom of the range.

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Overall, crude oil prices remain trapped in a wide, sideways trading range, but are now in the bottom portion of that range.

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That was at the bottom of range of analyst predictions for the group which has been repositioned after disposing of its tenanted pubs and off licences.

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