Amid chaos across markets today, oil was relatively calm, ending lower on broad risk-off sentiment, finding technical support intraday ahead of Powell's Humphrey Hawkins testimony tomorrow.
API
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Crude +423k (+1.3mm exp)
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Cushing
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Gasoline (-1.4mm exp)
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Distillates (-400k exp)
Crude stocks rose just 423k barrels last week according to API, well below expectations…
Source: Bloomberg
WTI was trading around $78.175 ahead of the print and was unphased after…
WTI isholding above its 200DMA intraday…
Finally, China set its annual growth target at about 5%, raising expectations for officials to unleash more stimulus as they try to lift confidence in a slowing economy. However, the nation also set a more ambitious target for reducing the energy needed for economic expansion, or energy intensity, this year.
So that didn't help.