- Oil edges higher as traders watch India and stockpiles
- The WTI prompt-month contract added $0.23 to trade at $63.48/Bbl Wednesday morning (7:45 AM CT)
- Prices recovered a portion of Tuesday’s losses as the market awaited fresh US inventory data and weighed the impact of higher US tariffs on Indian goods
- API data showed U.S. crude stockpiles slipped by 1 MMBbls last week, with Cushing also lower. Official EIA figures are due later Wednesday
- President Trump praised prices “down close to $60/Bbl,” adding that they could “break that pretty soon”
- Transportation fuel demand remains short of pre-pandemic norms (EIA)
- Gasoline, distillate, and jet fuel consumption all remain below pre-COVID averages, five years after the national emergency declaration
- Several factors are keeping a lid on demand: improved vehicle and aircraft efficiency has offset higher travel activity, while biomass-based fuels have replaced some petroleum-based distillates
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