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Crude jumps in Asia on API estimates
On Wednesday, oil grew in Asia after industry data on American inventories demonstrated that refined products slumped more than expected, although crude stocks didn’t drop as much as seen. Market participants were cautious ahead of gathering of OPEC as well as allied producers on May 25.
June delivery crude futures added 0.04% in New York, hitting $51.49 a barrel, and in London, Brent futures jumped 0.07%, hitting $54.19 a barrel.
Crude inventories edged down a less-than-expected 1.5 million barrels, hitting 512.9 million barrels at the end of the previous week, as the American Petroleum Institute informed on Tuesday. At the same time gasoline demonstrated a bigger than expected dip along with distillates. As for gasoline stocks, they went down by 3.15 million barrels, while distillate inventories dipped 1.85 million barrels.
Financial experts actually expected crude inventories to sag by 2.419 million barrels, while distillates are observed down 743,000 barrels, and gasoline stocks reported a 1.19 million barrels dip.
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