Data from the American Petroleum Institute showed Tuesday that U.S. crude inventories jumped by 10 million barrels in the week to April 24 — to 510 million barrels, according to Reuters. That was lower than analysts' expected.
The moves came after data from the American Petroleum Institute showed Tuesday that U.S. crude inventories jumped by 10 million barrels in the week to April 24 — to 510 million barrels, according to Reuters. That was lower than analysts' expectations of a build of 10.6 million barrels, Reuters reported.
"Exceptionally weak short-term prices will persist until production drops enough to ease the strain on storage facilities already operating at or close to full capacity," said Elena Nadtotchi, vice president and senior credit officer at Moody's. "Significant supply adjustments in due course should help to balance the market later in 2020, but the pace of the market's rebalancing and rising oil prices will depend on demand recovery.
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