French investment bank said that last week’s release of “extremely bearish API statistics” was met with initial disbelief, because the US’s API statistics are often exaggerated. The API reported a 38% increase in US crude imports to 11.5 million b/d pushing commercial crude stocks well above notional “minimum operating stocks”, gasoline stocks swelling by 3.5…
MARKETS: SG says “extremely bearish APIs” trigger funds to sell oil lower
Posted on February 9, 2004 by EnergyAsia