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U.S. crude oil stocks up slightly - API
Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:56pm GMT
NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil stockpiles rose 341,000 barrels last week, according to the American Petroleum Institute's report issued on Tuesday -- short of analyst expectations for over a 1-million-barrel build.
The small build in the week ended Feb. 20 came alongside a 68,000-barrel per day uptick in imports and a 0.3 percentage point decline in refinery utilization rates, according to the report.
Distillate stockpiles, meanwhile, rose 1.8 million barrels while gasoline inventories slipped 898,000 barrels, according to the report.
Analysts had forecast a decline in distillate stocks of 1.3 million barrels and a decline in gasoline stocks of 100,000 barrels, according to a Reuters poll....
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