NEW YORK, June 30 morning news, New York crude oil futures prices closed higher on Wednesday, mainly due to U.S. government report showed crude oil inventories fell last week, and fell far exceeded analyst expectations.
Day, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) 8, light sweet crude for January delivery rose 1.88 dollars to close at $ 94.77 a barrel, or 2 percent, the highest for nearly two weeks since the highest closing price. In Tuesday trading in New York crude oil futures prices rose 2.5 percent, the highest since May 18, the highest single-day gain since. Compared to last year, New York crude oil futures prices rose 25 percent in the second quarter so far dropped 11%.
London's ICE Futures Europe in August delivery price of Brent North Sea crude rose $ 3.62, to $ 112.40 a barrel, or 3.3%.
U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a report today, as of June 24, when crude oil inventories fell 4.4 million barrels the week to accept the market research firm Platts survey of analysts on average expected to reduce the 170 million barrels; gasoline inventories fell 140 million barrels, analysts on average expected increase of 700,000 barrels; distillates (including diesel and heating oil) inventories rose 300,000 barrels, analysts on average expected to increase 1.8 million barrels.
In addition, Wednesday is the new U.S. release 30 million barrels of crude oil inventories bid deadline, which is the International Energy Agency (IEA) will release 60 million barrels of crude oil inventory part. Most analysts expect, the International Energy Agency to provide these crude oil, only part of it will be sold in practice, as in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina as the release of inventory.
In other Nymex energy trading, the August delivery RBOB gasoline futures rose 12 cents to close at $ 2.93 per gallon (about $ 0.77 per liter), or 4.2%; August delivery of heating oil futures rose 9 cents to close at $ 2.93 per gallon (about $ 0.77 per liter), or 3.3%. (Civil and military)