NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters) - Brent and U.S. crude futures held on to gains on Thursday after separate reports showed jobless claims rose in the United States last week and the U.S. trade deficit fell in April.
Jobless claims rose against a forecast for them to have fallen slightly and the trade deficit fell after the consensus expectation was for the trade gap to be higher.
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