US crude oil prices on Thursday fell for the second straight session to hover below $ 50 per barrel in conjunction with the strength of the US dollar index, which rose to its highest level since September / September 2003 after the discovery of the US labor market data that exceeded expectations and that may be reflected in the decisions and directions Federal Reserve monetary policy makers during 17-18 March / March meeting.Promptly at 10:57 pm GMT, futures US crude oil fell to deliver 15 of the month of April / May next is currently traded at $ 49.69 per barrel compared with the opening levels at $ 50.91 a barrel, after the minimum achieved it at $ 48.86 a barrel and top them when $ 51.20 a barrel.On the other level, rising US dollar index, which tracks the greenback's performance against six major currencies, especially the euro, which weighs more than half of the index as well as the Swiss franc, Japanese yen, pound sterling, krone Swedish and Canadian dollar are seeing the highest level since September / September of 2003 at 97.74 before rebounding to trade at 97.71, compared Balavtaatahih at 96.36 after the minimum is achieved at 96.32.This has followed the US economy rising read the change in the functionality sectors except agricultural for the month of February for about 295 thousand jobs added compared to 239 thousand jobs added during January, to seeing the unemployment rate fell during the same month to 5.5% indicating the lowest level in seven years, compared with 5.7% in the previous reading, while the profitability index in the annual time rose by 2% below expectations and previous reading at the rate of 2.2%.It is worth mentioning that the number of jobs added in the past month has surpassed the level of 200 thousand and functional for 12 months, respectively, indicating the longest series of the rise since 1995, while the US economy 3.1 million jobs in 2014, its highest level since 15, but the slowdown in the index growth profitability, which is a measure of the evolution of wages in the United States still limit the capabilities of the household sector spending and weigh on the pace of growth of inflationary pressures, respectively.In the same context, the weekly report recently showed EIA surplus stocks of the eighth straight week amounted to about 10.3 million barrels during the past 27 of February any up more than double analysts' expectations, when a surplus of about 4 million barrels to reach that US crude oil inventories to about 444.4 million barrels pointing their highest level since the disease statistics in the thirties of the last century.Motor fuel stocks in the United States also settled the largest consumer of crude oil globally little changed from what it was in the previous weekly reading of the remains higher than the average range for this time of year, while distillate products, which include heating fuel by about 1.7 million barrels during the week, stocks fell last to remain below the average range for this time of year....
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