OIL PRICES * USA - Tops $70 Following DOE Inventory Report
New York,NY,USA -Transport Topics -19 Aug 2009: -- Oil pushed past $70 a barrel Wednesday for the first time this week following a Department of Energyreport that showed crude inventories plunged last week... DOE’s weekly report on crude stockpiles showed a drawdown of 8.4 million barrels last week, contrary to analysts’ predictions of a build, Bloomberg reported... Gasoline inventories fell 2.2 million barrels, while distillates, which include diesel, fell by 650,000 barrels for the week ended Saturday, DOE said...After sliding early, prices rose more than $1 to top $70 a barrel onthe New York Mercantile Exchange, CNBC reported... Crude futures closed at $69.19 a barrel on the NymexTuesday, up more than $2 from Monday’s closing price... (Photo from thetrucker: Oil falls below after Asian stock sell off)
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