US oil futures slip on mixed API report as crude stocks fall, but gasoline rises By

-- U.S. crude oil futures were dipped in post-settlement trading Tuesday after the American Petroleum Institute reported a larger-than-expected decline in weekly domestic crude inventories,Stock Index Futures Positions though gasoline stocks ticked up.

, the U.S. benchmark, recently traded at $69.80 a barrel following the report after settling down 0.9% at $70.08 a barrel.

fell by about 4.7M barrels for the week ended Dec, 13 compared with a build of 499,000 barrels reported by the API for the previous week. Economists were expecting a draw of 1.9M barrels.

Gasoline stockpiles increased by about 2.4M barrels, while distillate inventories -- the class of fuels that includes diesel and -- climbed by 700,000 barrels.

The report is due Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT).

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