Oil prices were mixed on Friday, lingering below two-year highs as the continuing outage of a North Sea pipeline gave support, while climbing U.S. output and weak gasoline demand kept a lid on gains. Brent crude futures settled down 8 cents or 0.1 percent to $63.23 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures settled up 26 cents to $57.30 a barrel. WTI hit a two-year high of $59.05 on Nov. 24. Brent ended the week down slightly with a 0.3 percent fall, while WTI was down 0.1 percent. “There’s definitely some pressure on crude,” said John Kilduff, partner at energy hedge fund Again Capital LLC in New York. “Demand for gasoline is lower which isn’t normally the case in the holiday season and supplies are steadily rising. It’s something to watch.” Gasoline futures were down 3.5 percent on the week. Hedge funds and […]