Crude Oil Prices Set To Finish Week With Major Gain

U.S. crude oil and gasoline inventories might be in short supply, but so are U.S. shale workers, according to new data released by the Labor Department on Friday. U.S. shale companies could have a harder time finding workers, the new data suggests, which showed that the number of workers employed in U.

S. oil and gas jobs fell to 133,800 in September—a 4.8% decrease from July, which was this year’s high. On Friday, the Labor Department showed the unemployment rate fell to 2.5% in September, from 2.6% in August. To compare, the unemployment…