SINGAPORE: The rally in oil prices extended into Asian trade Friday, a day after the main US contract broke $40 for the first time this year on the back of a weak dollar and hopes over output talks due next month.

With hopes growing that the world's biggest crude producers will hammer out some sort of deal to curb output, investors have in recent weeks been piling back into the commodity, which toyed with 13-year lows last month.

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