{"id":41023,"date":"2013-08-15T09:37:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=41023"},"modified":"2013-08-15T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:37:57","slug":"oil-rises-on-egypt-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/08\/15\/oil-rises-on-egypt-crises\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Rises On Egypt Crises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <u><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hymarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HY Markets Forex Blog<\/a><\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Egypt crises worries investors as the West Texas Intermediate and Brent futures hit its highest level for the fifth day in a row. It reached its highest in over four month as the crises in oil-rich Egypt worsens. While crude prices extended its gains, investors are worried over the supplies that come through Egypt and the fall in the US Oil inventories.<\/p>\n<p>The WTI Futures rose 0.24% to $107.11 a barrel on the New York NYMEX at the time of writing, while the Brent futures reached the $111 level, up 0.57% to $110.83 at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The on-going crisis across the oil-producing countries in the Middle Eastern region continues to spark worries amongst investors as the oil industries in Iraq, Libya and Egypt are at risk.<span id=\"more-2237\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the past recent weeks, the US Oil supplies have reduced to almost six times, as the inventories decreased to 360.5 million barrels in the week that ended August 9<sup>th<\/sup>, according to reports from the Energy Information Administration (EIA).<\/p>\n<p>Gasoline stockpiles were also seen lower than forecasted in the report, falling by 1.2 million barrels. Distillate stockpiles rose by 2 million barrels, higher than the predicted 1 million rise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Egypt Crises\u00a0<b><\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Investors are worried about the important Suez Canal oil chokepoint during the crackdown events in Egypt. Egypt manages the Suez Canal and the Suez- Mediterranean Pipeline which combines approximately 4.51 million barrels a day. Crude and refined products were shipped across the Red sea and the Mediterranean last year, according to EIA.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 35% of the world\u2019s oil output was accounted by the Middle East in the first quarter, according to data from the International Energy Agency.<\/p>\n<p>More violence have been sparking in Egypt, as the bloody crackdown took place on Wednesday ,when protestors assembled at two different sitting organized against the military-supported Adly Monsour. According to reports over 500 people died.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hymarkets.com\/\">www.hymarkets.com<\/a> \u00a0today and find out more on how you can how you can trade Energy products! \u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hymarkets.com\/world-market-news\/oil-rises-on-egypt-crises.html\">Oil Rises On Egypt Crises<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hymarkets.com\">| HY Markets Official blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Article provided by <strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hymarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HY Markets Forex Blog<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By HY Markets Forex Blog Egypt crises worries investors as the West Texas Intermediate and Brent futures hit its highest level for the fifth day in a row. It reached its highest in over four month as the crises in oil-rich Egypt worsens. While crude prices extended its gains, investors are worried over the supplies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/08\/15\/oil-rises-on-egypt-crises\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oil Rises On Egypt Crises&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}