Oil prices flat amid weak US demand, softening economy

Oil prices were flat on Thursday, cooling from the previous session as weak demand in the United States and broad oversupply risks countered concern over attacks in the Middle East and Russia's war in Ukraine. Brent crude futures were up 1 cent, or 0.01%, at $67.50 a barrel by 0156 GMT, and US West Texas Intermediate crude futures added 2 cents, or 0.03%, to $63.69. The benchmark contracts gained more than $1 each on Wednesday following Israel's attack on Hamas leadership in Qatar the day before, and as Poland scrambled its own and NATO air defences to shoot down suspected Russian drones that had strayed into its airspace during an attack on western Ukraine. It was the first time a...