LONDON—U.S. crude-oil benchmarks continued to rally Monday on the back of last week's news of a major pipeline leak, but the oil complex was also firmer in general amid strong Chinese data and a weaker dollar against the euro.
The front-month October light, sweet crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange, known as West Texas Intermediate, was 61 cents higher at $77.06 a barrel in recent trade.
U.S. crude prices surged Friday after the shutdown of the 670,000 barrel-per-day Enbridge pipeline out of Canada, which pumps oils into the U.S. Midwest, ...