{"id":78378,"date":"2015-09-17T07:01:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=78378"},"modified":"2015-09-17T07:02:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:02:29","slug":"crude-prices-retrace-some-of-wednesdays-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2015\/09\/crude-prices-retrace-some-of-wednesdays-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude Prices Retrace Some of Wednesday\u2019s Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-3737989913\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">September 17, 2015<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p>Article by <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/contributors\/contributor-profile-forextime\/\">ForexTime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crude oil prices edged lower on Thursday ahead of the Fed\u2019s decision on interest rates expected at 2:00 PM ET.\u00a0 Prices broke out on Wednesday following a report from the Energy Information Administration that showed that crude oil inventories declined by more than expected.\u00a0 Support is seen near the50-day moving average at $45.81, and then again at the 20-day moving average at $44.26. Resistance is seen near the recent highs at $49.<\/p>\n<p>The inventory numbers released from the Department of Energy were mixed but the market appears to have only seen the bullish aspect. U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 2.1 million barrels from the previous week, but expectations were for a flat reading. Total gasoline inventories increased by 2.8 million barrels last week, and are in the upper half of the average range. Distillate fuel inventories increased by 3.1 million barrels last week but are in the middle of the average range for this time of year. Total commercial petroleum inventories increased by 8.5 million barrels last week.<\/p>\n<p>On the demand front, total products demand over the last four-week period averaged 19.5 million barrels per day, up by 0.7% from the same period last year. Over the last four weeks, gasoline demand averaged about 9.2 million barrels per day, up by 2.0% from the same period last year. Distillate fuel demand averaged 3.6 million barrels per day over the last four weeks, down by 2.8% from the same period last year. Jet fuel demand is up 5.6% compared to the same four-week period last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexcircles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cl-091715.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9119\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forexcircles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cl-091715-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"cl-091715\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54242 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Forex-Time-Logo.png\" alt=\"Forex-Time-Logo\" width=\"262\" height=\"90\" \/><strong>Article by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/contributors\/contributor-profile-forextime\/\">ForexTime<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ForexTime Ltd (FXTM)<\/strong> is an award winning international online forex broker regulated by CySEC 185\/12 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forextime.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.forextime.com<\/a><\/p><div id=\"inves-831458404\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by ForexTime Crude oil prices edged lower on Thursday ahead of the Fed\u2019s decision on interest rates expected at 2:00 PM ET.\u00a0 Prices broke out on Wednesday following a report from the Energy Information Administration that showed that crude oil inventories declined by more than expected.\u00a0 Support is seen near the50-day moving average at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78380,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78378\/revisions\/78380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}