Thursday, July 18, 2013

Oil consolidates near $106 after US supplies drop

Oil consolidated above $106 a barrel Thursday after U.S. crude supplies fell for a third straight week, a sign of increased demand in the world's largest energy consumer.
Benchmark crude for August delivery was down 13 cents at $106.35 a barrel at midafternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract gained 48 cents to settle at $106.48 in New York on Wednesday.
Despite cooling economic growth in China, the price of oil was underpinned by another sizable decline in U.S. oil supplies. The U.S. crude inventory fell by 6.9 million barrels last week, bringing the three-week decline to 27.1 million barrels, the Energy Department said.

http://news.yahoo.com/oil-consolidates-near-106-us-073533568.html 

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