Crude oil rose above $100 a barrel after an Energy Department report indicated that supplies remained flat. Analysts had expected a rise in crude oil inventory by 500,000 – 700,000 barrels. Also, gasoline inventories rose 100,000 barrels which fell short of the nearly 600,000 barrel increase predicted by analysts.
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Jim Sutliff