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Crude oil fell below $70 per barrel on Wednesday as Energy Information Administration data showed a build in gasoline stockpiles that was more than twice as large as analysts had predicted.
Light sweet crude oil finished the session at $69.57 per barrel, down $1.31 on the session. Prices had reached as high as $71.76 earlier in the session.
Total motor gasoline inventories increased by 2.9 million barrels last week, and are above the upper limit of the average range. An increase of 1.3 million barrels was projected. Distillate fuel inventories increased by 700,000 million barrels, while propane/propylene inventories increased by 100,000 barrels last week.
Crude oil inventories decreased by 1 million barrels in the week ended October 2. Experts were predicting an increase of 1.9 billion barrels. At 337.4 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are above the upper boundary of the average range for this time of year.
There was no major economic news scheduled for Wednesday. On Thursday, initial jobless claims data is due at 8:30 a.m. ET and the Wholesales inventories report is expected 90 minutes later.
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