Oil: increase in crude stocks in the United States last week
The announcement of a larger increase than expected in oil reserves in the United States last week weighs very little on the price of black gold on Thursday, the war in Ukraine obliges. According to the US Department of Energy, domestic crude inventories, excluding strategic reserves, increased by 4.5 million barrels during the week ended February 18 to 416 MB. The consensus was for a limited increase of 0.5 MB. Gasoline inventories fell by 0.6 million barrels (-1.5 MB consensus), while inventories of distillates also fell by 0.6 million barrels (-1.7 MB consensus).
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