Crude Oil Slips Lower, Supply Concerns Dominate

Posted Thursday, May 23, 2019 by
Arslan Butt • 1 min read

In Asia oil prices dropped on Thursday due to the EIA statement which showed an unexpected build in US crude oil inventories last week.

US Crude Oil fell by 0.6% to $61.03 earlier today on over supply concerns.

Moreover, crude prices dropped as much as 3% on Wednesday after the US Energy Information Administration showed a surprise crude inventories build, which grew by 4.7 million barrels last week, versus expectations for a drop of nearly 600,000 barrels.

Since the previous week, crude inventories had grown by 5.4 million barrels.

Increasing inventories and a slowdown of refined product demand could suggest we could see more pressure on prices.

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Arslan Butt // Index & Commodity Analyst
Arslan Butt is our Lead Commodities and Indices Analyst. Arslan is a professional market analyst and day trader. He holds an MBA in Behavioral Finance and is working towards his Ph.D. Before joining FX Leaders Arslan served as a senior analyst in a major brokerage firm. Arslan is also an experienced instructor and public speaker.