AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report for Friday, 5/5/23
National Average Price for Regular Unleaded Current: $3.561; Month Ago: $3.528; Year Ago: $4.247. National Average Price for Diesel Current: $4.087; Month Ago: $4.211; Year Ago: $5.473.
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Futures in New York rose as much as 1.2 percent after dropping on Monday. While U.S. inventories are forecast to have added 3.4 million barrels last week, that would mark slower growth than the prior week. OPEC and its partners, which are cutting output to ease the global glut, still expect markets to balance by about the third quarter, according to people familiar with the matter. U.S. crude inventories are at their highest since December and probably grew again last week, according to a Bloomberg survey before government data due Wednesday. While supplies are set for a fourth weekly advance, the expected increase is smaller than the 5 million-barrel gain a week earlier. Click Read More below for additional information.
Oil Prices Find Support in Trade Talks and Mideast Tensions
Crude oil futures steadied on Monday, supported by a rebound in stock markets and escalating Saudi-Iran tensions.
Global stocks came off six-week lows on optimism that the United States and China are set to begin trade talks, easing fears about a trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
The possibility of a full-blown trade war had weighed on the energy complex on fears that it could harm oil demand.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 were up 9 cents at $70.54 a barrel at 1206 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 eased 5 cents to $65.83.