2024-06-13 13:03:01
AA / Ankara / Zeynep Beyza Kilic
Crude oil costs fell in Thursday’s buying and selling, following the discharge of information indicating a rise in US crude oil reserves and the choice by the US Central Financial institution (Fed) to cut back the variety of rate of interest cuts in a single discount for the yr 2024.
Worldwide benchmark Brent crude traded at $81.98 a barrel at 13:52 GMT native time (10:52 GMT), down 0.75% from Wednesday’s shut which had set the worth of a barrel at $82.60.
The US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI), in the meantime, traded at $77.83 a barrel, down 0.85% from yesterday’s commerce to finish the day at $78.50 a barrel.
The Vitality Data Administration (EIA) reported an increase in US industrial crude oil inventories of 0.8%, or 3.7 million barrels, in the course of the week of June 7, when the market anticipated a decline of simply 1.2 million barrels.
In the identical interval, strategic oil reserves, that are excluded from industrial crude oil reserves, and petrol reserves additionally elevated by approx. 300,000 barrels and a couple of.6 million barrels.
The rise in inventories signifies a drop in demand on the planet’s largest oil-consuming nation, resulting in a downward development within the worth of a barrel of oil.
Regardless of indicators of a slowdown in inflation within the US, the Fed has revised the variety of charge cuts for the yr 2024 from three to a single reduce.
The Fed introduced its financial coverage choices and its financial forecasts on Wednesday night. The Federal Reserve didn’t change the important thing rate of interest as anticipated and saved it unchanged in a variety between 5.25 and 5.50%.
After the assembly, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell stated it was not the suitable time to ease financial coverage.
* Translated from English by Mounir Bennour.
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