The plan to launch China's first crude oil futures contract is facing more roadblocks as the Shanghai International Energy Exchange, or INE, comes under government review, a senior official close to the matter said Monday. "The target ...
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US commercial crude stocks fell 10.3 million barrels to 390.69 million barrels for the reporting week ended May 16, American Petroleum Institute data showed Tuesday. The draw is far larger than analysts had expected. A Platts survey of ...
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--Light, sweet crude for April delivery rises 76 cents to $102.59 a barrel --Overall inventories grow less than expected --Continued supply reductions at key U.S. delivery point U.S. oil prices rose Wednesday after weekly U.S. ...
US Gulf Coast propane was at an 11-month high relative to the NYMEX front-month crude contract Friday morning as buying for the fall and winter heating season picks up and exports continued to drain US propane stocks. Mont Belvieu propane ...
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The slide in LPG prices over the past four days on abundant supply and an Asian demand pause has sent physical values to six-week lows and flipped the paper market to the steepest contango structure since early July 2012, market sources ...
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The premium of second-month cash Brent to front-month cash Dubai widened to $4.08/barrel Tuesday, the first time the spread has breached $4/b since early-March as a combination of a rising Brent complex and lower fuel oil cracks have ...
Commercial crude stocks in Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for the NYMEX crude contract, dropped for the third consecutive week, hitting its lowest level yet in 2013, US Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. ...
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NYMEX parent CME Group will likely implement additional quality specifications on its light sweet crude futures starting with the January 2014 contract, a member of the Crude Oil Quality Association's board said Thursday. CME plans to ...
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Crude futures diverged late in the US trading day Wednesday, as the front-month ICE Brent contract slid from a session high of $104.07/b to a low of $102.85/b in a little over 40 minutes. ICE July Brent settled 20 cents lower at ...
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The oil complex pushed sharply lower late in US trade Friday, extending an overnight selloff prompted by a stronger dollar, lower equities markets and OPEC's decision to roll over its 30 million b/d output target following Friday's meeting ...
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Continuing speculation about the future of the US Federal Reserve's asset-purchasing program in the wake of congressional testimony by Chairman Ben Bernanke sent the dollar sharply higher Wednesday, and augmented downward pressure on the ...
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US commercial crude stocks surged 6.696 million barrels over the week ended April 26 to hit a record high level of 395.284 million barrels, data from the Energy Information Administration showed Wednesday. The climb, due largely to a ...
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The ratio of the Gulf Coast normal butane assessment to the front-month NYMEX crude contract is at 57.9% Friday morning, the lowest level since late 2008, Platts data showed, in part due to the deployment summer gasoline specs. The ratio, ...
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Distillate futures closed US trading sharply higher Wednesday, holding onto boosts seen in the wake of an unexpectedly bullish inventory report released in the morning by the Energy Information Administration. NYMEX April heating oil ...
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Oil futures settled lower Monday after extending an overnight slide that saw the front-month NYMEX crude contract trade below $90/barrel for the first time since December 26. NYMEX April crude settled 56 cents lower at $90.12/b, while ICE ...
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