TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Wednesday after an industry report showed crude inventories in the United States fell much more than expected, suggesting demand is improving even as the coronavirus outbreak spreads around the world.
FILE PHOTO: The moon rises behind the storage tanks of a local oil refinery in Omsk, Russia June 5, 2020. REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko
Brent crude LCOc1 rose 33 cents, or 0.8%, to $41.60 a barrel by 0044 GMT after declining more than 1% on Tuesday. U.S. crude was up 42 cents, or 1.1%, at $39.69 a barrel, having dropped by 1.1% in the previous session.
U.S. crude and gasoline stocks declined more than expected last week, while distillate inventories rose, data released by the American Petroleum Institute (API) late on Tuesday showed. [API/S]
Crude inventories dropped by 8.2 million barrels to 537 million barrels, against analysts’ forecasts for a draw of 710,000 barrels.
“If the API estimates are vetted by the official government agency data due out tomorrow, this will be viewed as a definite bullish signal,” said Stephen Innes, chief global markets strategist at AxiCorp.
“The reports could go a long way to easing some of those lingering inventory concerns,” he said.
Inventory data from the U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration is due out later on Wednesday.
Still prices are likely to be capped, analysts said, as the world is awash with oil after the coronavirus caused demand for fuel to drop by around a third.
A Reuters poll of analysts indicated that oil prices will consolidate at around $40 a barrel this year, with a recovery potentially picking up in the fourth quarter.
The virus continues to spread around the world with ever increasing rates of infection. Cases now total more than 10 million with more than half a million people dying after catching COVID-19.
Reporting by Aaron Sheldrick; editing by Richard Pullin
"oil" - Google News
July 01, 2020 at 08:19AM
https://ift.tt/3g6IzcC
Oil rises after sharp drop in U.S. crude inventories - Reuters
"oil" - Google News
https://ift.tt/2PqPpxF
Shoes Man Tutorial
Pos News Update
Meme Update
Korean Entertainment News
Japan News Update
Bagikan Berita Ini
0 Response to "Oil rises after sharp drop in U.S. crude inventories - Reuters"
Post a Comment