Benchmark Brent crude hovered around $60 in Asia on Friday, up almost 4 percent this week as news of deeper industry spending cuts and a sinking U.S. dollar revived buying. Brent crude for April delivery was trading up 95 cents at $60.23 by 0704 GMT, after briefly gaining more than $1. “Brent April 15 seem to be trending very near to the resistance of $60.40 suggesting that it would more likely trend downwards as prices consolidate after yesterday’s rise,” Daniel Ang of Phillip Futures in Singapore wrote in a note.