{"id":15084,"date":"2011-10-05T09:14:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T07:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/15084\/wti-oil-trading-at-78-a-barrel-as-us-crude-stocks-weaken\/"},"modified":"2011-10-05T09:14:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T07:14:34","slug":"wti-oil-trading-at-78-a-barrel-as-us-crude-stocks-weaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/15084\/wti-oil-trading-at-78-a-barrel-as-us-crude-stocks-weaken\/","title":{"rendered":"WTI oil trading at $78 a barrel as US crude stocks weaken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>WTI oil futures open Wednesday&#8217;s trading session back around $78 a barrel after gaining 2.8 percent yesterday, boosted by weaker US crude oil stocks data from the US American Petroleum Institute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Latest WTI Oil Price<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US Light crude oil futures for November 2011 delivery was trading at $78.11 a barrel, 07.50 GMT this morning in electronic trading on the NYMEX.<\/p>\n<p><strong>US Oil Stocks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crude inventories dropped 3.1 million barrels last week, according to the US API (American Petroleum Institute), however a US Energy Department report today is forecast to show a gain of 1.5 million barrels.<\/p>\n<p>The API collects stockpile information on a voluntary basis from operators of US refineries, bulk terminals and pipelines.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices also saw gains after the US stock market made a recovery late on Tuesday. The US Dow Jones industrial average closed yesterday&#8217;s session at 10,808.71, up 153.41 points, or 1.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We saw a natural rebound in the market coming from the European situation and the better stock market and that just followed through to the crude market.&#8221; said Ken Hasegawa, energy trading manager at broker Newedge, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oil prices remain under the sway of macroeconomic sentiment.&#8221; said strategists at Barclays Capital.<\/p>\n<div\nname=\"googleone_share_1\"><g:plusone size=\"tall\" count=\"1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liveoilprices.co.uk\/oil\/oil_prices\/10\/2011\/wti-oil-trading-at-78-a-barrel-as-us-crude-stocks-weaken.html\">{lang: 'en-GB'}<\/g:plusone><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=http2F2Foil2F102Fwti-oil-trading-at-78-a-barrel-as-us-crude-stocks-weaken.html&title=WTI+oil+trading+at+%2478+a+barrel+as+US+crude+stocks+weaken\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" 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US Oil Stocks Crude inventories dropped 3.1 million barrels last week, according to the US API (American Petroleum Institute), however a US Energy Department report today is forecast to show a gain of 1.5 million barrels. The API collects stockpile information on a voluntary basis from operators of US refineries, bulk terminals and pipelines. Oil prices also saw gains after the US stock market made a recovery late on Tuesday. The US Dow Jones industrial average closed yesterday&#8217;s session at 10,808.71, up 153.41 points, or 1.4 percent. &#8220;We saw a natural rebound in the market coming from the European situation and the better stock market and that just followed through to the crude market.&#8221; said Ken Hasegawa, energy trading manager at broker Newedge, Japan. &#8220;Oil prices remain under the sway of macroeconomic sentiment.&#8221; said strategists at Barclays Capital. {lang: 'en-GB'} ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome-start-here-tradecrudeoilchatroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}