Crude oil prices fell on Friday as investors took profits following Thursday’s steep gains and the dollar added to its recent rally. Light, sweet crude for June delivery settled down 49 cents, or 1%, at $46.21 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent, the global benchmark, fell 25 cents, or 0.5%, to $47.83 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe. Both finished the week higher. Nymex oil rose 3.5%, its 10th winning week in the past 13. Brent gained 5.4%, its fifth gain in the past six weeks. That string of gains peaked at fresh six-month highs on Thursday in part from a bullish report on supply and demand from the Paris-based International Energy Agency. It focused on recent supply outages and strong demand world-wide, which helped revive oil’s rally in the past week. But many of those supply disruptions are temporary, analysts said. Some production is already […]