据道琼斯纽约11月12日消息,因数据显示美国原油库存连续第七周增加,原油价格周四跌至8月份以来的最低水平。
美国能源情报署(EIA)周四公布,美国原油库存上周增加420万桶。接受《华尔街日报》调查的分析师之前预估增加110万桶。原油和成品油供给增加260万桶,至13亿桶,接近纪录高点。
纽约商交所十二月交割的轻质低硫原油期货结算价下跌1.18美元,至每桶41.75美元,跌幅2.7%。欧洲ICE交易所的布伦特原油期货下跌1.75美元,至每桶44.06美元,跌幅3.8%。
两种基准原油期货结算价均为8月26日以来最低水平。
唐绍红摘译自道琼斯
原文如下:
Oil Prices Slide as Crude Inventory Rises More Than Expected
By Nicole Friedman
NEW YORK--Oil prices fell Thursday to their lowest levels since August as U.S. inventory data showed a seventh straight increase in U.S. supplies.
U.S. crude inventories rose by 4.2 million barrels last week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Thursday. Analysts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had expected an increase of 1.1 million barrels. Total supplies of crude oil and refined products rose 2.6 million barrels to 1.3 billion barrels, near all-time highs.
Light, sweet crude for December delivery settled down $1.18, or 2.7%, to $41.75 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent, the global benchmark, fell $1.75, or 3.8%, to $44.06 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe.
Both benchmarks settled at the lowest level since Aug. 26.