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Oil Higher After US Crude Inventories Fell by 6.3M barrels

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Oil prices rallied Thursday, extending earlier gains after data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed that domestic crude supplies dropped by 6.3 million barrels for the week ended June 30.


West Texas Intermediate graph

That topped forecasts for a decline of 1.6 million barrels by analysts surveyed by S&P Global Platts, and also came in above the fall of 5.8 barrels reported by the American Petroleum Institute late Wednesday. Supply data were released a day late because of Tuesday’s Independence Day holiday.

Gasoline stockpiles also fell by 3.7 million barrels, while distillate stockpiles decreased by 1.9 million barrels last week, according to the EIA. August crude CLQ7, +2.50% rose $1.24, or 2.8%, to $46.37 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It traded at $45.77 before the supply data.

via MarketWatch

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Alfonso Esparza

Alfonso Esparza

Senior Currency Analyst at Market Pulse
Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.
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