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Oil Bulls Stare at 3rd Weekly Loss in U.S. Crude After Gasoline Pile
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Introduction© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan-- Oil bulls faced their third weekly loss in U.S. crude as the ma ...

By Barani Krishnan
-- Oil bulls faced their third weekly loss in U.S. crude as the massive gasoline inventory pile-up of the past fortnight continued to weigh,Detailed tutorial for foreign exchange trading despite a weaker dollar helping some short-covering to the selling from earlier in the week.
Brent, the global benchmark for oil versus the West Texas Intermediate, or WTI, gauge for U.S. crude, did better, heading for its first positive week in six.
“It’s the weaker dollar that’s the story today and that’s helped oil cut some losses,” said John Kilduff, partner at New York energy hedge fund Again Capital. “But WTI is still the weaker link here, compared to Brent, and that’s because of the huge gasoline build we’ve had the past two weeks.”
U.S. gasoline stockpiles ballooned by about 9 million barrels over the past two weeks in the largest build since the near 14 million barrel jump seen during the January 7th and January 15th weeks.
London-traded Brent settled Friday’s trade down 66 cents, or 0.6%, at $103.20 a barrel, after rising about $3 earlier to a session peak of $106.78 and dropping more than $2 to an intraday low of $101.50.
For the week, Brent finished up 2.2%, ending a five-day losing streak that had set it back by about 13%. The global crude benchmark hit a near five-month low of $95.42 last week.
New York-traded {{WTI}} settled Friday's trade down $1.65, or 1.7%, at $94.70 per barrel. The slide came after another choppy session that took the U.S. benchmark up more than $1.50 to the day’s peak, versus a drop of about $2 to the day’s lows.
For the week, WTI fell almost 3%, extending to nearly 13% its loss over the past three accumulated weeks.Last week, WTI sank to $90.58 for its worst price since February.
Volatility has been the game in oil since last week’s rate hike fears that propped up the dollar to two-decade highs.
The Dollar Index, which pits the greenback against six major currencies, hit a more than two-week low at 105.983 on Friday, after soaring to 109.140 last week for its highest levels since December 2002.
The slide in the greenback has worsened since the European Central Bank on Thursday joined many other central banks in raising interest rates, focusing on fighting runaway inflation rather than the economic downturn.
Friday’s weaker-than-expected U.S. services sector data also weighed on the dollar. S&P Global said the reading on its latest services sector fell to 47 versus a forecast of 52.6 and a prior print of 52.7.
"Excluding pandemic lockdown months, output is falling at a rate not seen since 2009," Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI) Market Intelligence, said in the survey.
The dollar fell as ’s Fed Rate Monitor Tool increasingly priced in a 75 basis point rate hike for July and a final range of 3.25-3.50% by end-December, after the services sector data. Previously, expectations for year-end rates were as high as 4%. Rate cuts are also increasingly being priced in for 2023.
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