Oil prices rise ahead of OPEC+ meeting on output cuts

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Tuesday to near three-month highs on expectations that major producers would agree to extend output cuts that have shored up prices, during a video conference likely to be held this week. Benchmark Brent crude rose 2.5%, or 97 cents, to $39.29 a barrel as of 1100 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude also climbed 2.5%, or 88 cents, to $36.32 a barrel.Brent has doubled in the past six weeks helped by supply cuts by the Organization of the Petroleum..