SINGAPORE: Oil prices pushed higher Monday thanks to a softer dollar after last week's well-below-forecast US jobs report, but the gains were limited as producers increased their rig count as the commodity held around the key $50 level.

The US labor department said Friday that just 38,000 new jobs were created last month, a quarter of what was expected and scything any chance of an interest rate hike any time soon.

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