{"id":47452,"date":"2014-02-13T07:53:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T12:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=47452"},"modified":"2014-02-13T07:53:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T12:53:01","slug":"crude-prices-slides-from-four-month-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2014\/02\/13\/crude-prices-slides-from-four-month-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude Prices Slides from Four-Month High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <u><a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/L42ObV\" target=\"_blank\">HY Markets Forex Blog<\/a><\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Crude prices slid from a four-month high on Thursday as reports from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed the US oil stockpiles climbed.<\/p>\n<p>Futures for the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for March delivery dropped 0.67% lower at $99.70 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange at the time of writing, while the European benchmark Brent crude for March settlement declined 0.31% to $108.44 per barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange.<span id=\"more-3441\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Crude &#8211; US Oil Inventories<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released reports which revealed stockpiles at Cushing, Oklahoma declined by 2.6 million barrels last week, as a pipeline helped to move oil away from the largest storage hub in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The reports from the EIA also revealed crude inventories climbed by 3.27 million to 361.35 million barrels in the week ended February 2, exceeding analysts\u2019 forecast of a rise of 2.63 million barrels.<\/p>\n<p>Distillate stockpiles declined by 731,000 barrels to 113.1 million in the week ending February 7, reports from the EIA confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, reports from the American Petroleum Institute (API) showed that US crude oil inventories rose by 2.13 million barrels last week.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Crude &#8211; OPEC Global Demand Estimates<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) released a February issue of its monthly oil market report, in which the OPEC increased its forecast for global oil demand by 50,000 barrels a day to 1.09 million barrels a day.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Other News<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Russian government predicted that its oil production would reach approximately 525 million tons or 10.54 million barrels per day this year, according to Russia\u2019s deputy minister, Alexander Novak.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Libya, protesters closed the oil and gas pipelines in the Wafa oil field, according to the National Oil Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Visit<\/i><\/strong><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><b><i><a title=\"HY Markets\" href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1fxqljy\" target=\"_blank\">www.hymarkets.com \u00a0<\/a>\u00a0to find out more about our products\u00a0<\/i><\/b><strong><i>and start trading today with only $50 using the latest trading technology today.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/MfoJh9\">Crude Prices Slides from Four-Month High<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/L42ObV\">| HY Markets Official blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Article provided by <strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/L42ObV\" target=\"_blank\">HY Markets Forex Blog<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By HY Markets Forex Blog Crude prices slid from a four-month high on Thursday as reports from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed the US oil stockpiles climbed. 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