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Beijing on Jan. 19 morning news, New York crude oil futures prices ended lower on Wednesday, mainly due to reports that the Obama administration will reject the Keystone XL pipeline project company.
Day, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYEMX) 2, light sweet crude for January delivery fell 12 cents to close at $ 100.59 a barrel, down 0.1%. In the news about Keystone, February contract fell to $ 100.98 per barrel from $ 99.84 a barrel, and then rebound somewhat.
London's ICE Futures Europe Brent for March delivery crude fell 87 cents to close at $ 110.66 a barrel, down 0.8%. By the closing price of Brent crude oil futures in New York the difference between light crude oil futures to $ 9.90 per barrel, the difference in the 14 October last year hit a record high of $ 27.88 per barrel level.
American Petroleum Institute (API) and the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA), respectively, will be released later today and tomorrow as the week of January 13, crude oil and petroleum product inventory report. Bloomberg News survey, the survey of 12 analysts on average expected the U.S. Energy Department report will show U.S. crude oil inventories last week increased by 300 million barrels to 337.6 million barrels, an increase of 0.9% for the fourth consecutive week to achieve growth.
Today, the dollar continued to fall, the formation of crude oil futures market some support. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) latest report of the U.S. dollar index 80.552 points, lower than Tuesday's 81.175 points.
In other Nymex energy trading, two RBOB gasoline futures for May delivery rose 5 cents to close at $ 2.82 per gallon (about $ 0.74 per liter), or 2%; heating for February delivery oil futures fell 2 cents to close at $ 3.01 per gallon (about $ 0.80 per liter), a decrease of 0.8%; February natural gas futures fell 2 cents, per million British thermal units $ 2.47, down 0.6%
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