{"id":79287,"date":"2015-10-07T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=79287"},"modified":"2015-10-07T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T18:42:37","slug":"crude-oil-hits-resistance-following-diverging-inventory-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2015\/10\/crude-oil-hits-resistance-following-diverging-inventory-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude Oil Hits Resistance Following Diverging Inventory Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-1565859249\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">October 7, 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 were nearly unchanged on Wednesday morning in the U.S. \u00a0following diverging reports that showed declining inventories, falling production and increasing inventories.\u00a0 The American Petroleum Institute reported a decline in inventories by 1.2 million barrels, while the Department of Energy showed a build.\u00a0 The EIA reported in its short term energy outlook that production declined by 120K barrels in September which was more than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Prices had broken out until the DOE reported its inventory report. U.S. crude oil imports averaged about 7.1 million barrels per day last week, down by 486,000 barrels per day from the previous week. U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 3.1 million barrels from the previous week. Gasoline inventories increased by 1.9 million barrels last week, and are above the upper limit of the average range. Distillate fuel inventories decreased by 2.5 million barrels last week but are in the middle of the average range for this time of year. Total commercial petroleum inventories increased by 2.3 million barrels last week.<\/p>\n<p>On the demand side, total demand over the last four-week period averaged 19.3 million barrels per day, down by 0.3% from the same period last year. Over the last four weeks, gasoline demand averaged 9.0 million barrels per day, up by 4.0% from the same period last year. Distillate fuel demand averaged over 3.9 million barrels per day over the last four weeks, up by 3.7% from the same period last year. Jet fuel demand was up 6.9% compared to the same four-week period last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexcircles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cl-100715a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9356\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forexcircles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/cl-100715a-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"cl-100715a\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/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-839749176\" 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 were nearly unchanged on Wednesday morning in the U.S. \u00a0following diverging reports that showed declining inventories, falling production and increasing inventories.\u00a0 The American Petroleum Institute reported a decline in inventories by 1.2 million barrels, while the Department of Energy showed a build.\u00a0 The EIA reported in its short term [&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-79287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79287","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=79287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79293,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79287\/revisions\/79293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}