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Oil Prices Hold Gains As Gasoline Stocks Hit 12 Year Lows, Cushing 'Tank Bottoms' Loom
Oil Prices Hold Gains As Gasoline Stocks Hit 12 Year Lows, Cushing 'Tank Bottoms' Loom
Brent crude prices are rising back toward $100 per barrel this morning following the latest flare-up in fighting to threaten the U.S.-Iran ceasefire
Prices rose after the U.S. military said Iran fired missiles toward Kuwait and Bahrain, which failed to hit their targets.
The United States said it then struck an Iranian military ground control station on an island in the Strait of Hormuz.
API:
Crude: -6.8MM
Cushing: -279k
Gasoline: +3.5M
Distillate: -214k
DOE:
Crude: -7.97mm - biggest draw since Feb
Cushing: -583k
Gasoline: +3.36mm -...
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