The commercial oil reserves in the United States decreased by 426 thousand barrels over the past week and on May 7 amounted to 484.691 million barrels. As the TASS reports, the US Ministry of Energy reported this.
In this case, analysts surveyed by the Bloomberg agency expected reserves of 2.1 million barrels.
Note that the cost of the July Futures for Brent Oil on the London Stock Exchange Ice grew by 1.79 percent and was at $ 69.78 per barrel, WTI oil was worthwhile by 1.82 percent, up to $ 66.47 for barrel.