WeeklyInventoryReport posts

Feed

Weekly inventory report pushes oil up past $132

Oil prices have continued to soar, and today they rose above $132 a barrel following this week's inventory report from the Department of Energy.

Prices climbed to a new record high of $132.08, but have since cooled off a bit and are currently sitting at $131.72. The reason for today's jump (OK, at least one of the reasons) was an unexpected drop in both crude oil and gasoline inventories last week.

Analysts had been expecting to see oil inventories rise bit a bit last week, and were shocked when they learned that the actual inventories numbers were in the red, and not just by a little, but by five million barrels. Looking at gasoline inventories, analysts had been hoping to see modest gains as well, but were once again shocked to see the numbers actually falling last week.

Continue reading Weekly inventory report pushes oil up past $132

Symbol Lookup
IndexesChangePrice
DJIA-89.2312,801.23
NASDAQ-23.352,903.88
S&P 500-9.311,342.64

Last updated: February 12, 2012: 09:08 AM

Hot Stocks

General Electric

18.875-0.255(-1.33)

Alcoa

10.29-0.35(-3.29)

Apple Inc

493.42+0.25(+0.05)

Google Inc 'A'

605.91-5.55(-0.91)

Bank of America

8.07-0.11(-1.34)

Wal-Mart Stores

61.90-0.06(-0.10)

Exxon Mobil Corp

83.80-1.08(-1.27)

Ford

12.44-0.25(-1.97)

Citigroup

32.925-0.735(-2.18)

IBM

192.42-0.71(-0.37)

Yahoo

16.14+0.14(+0.88)

Starbucks

48.82-0.38(-0.77)

Microsoft

30.495-0.275(-0.89)

Home Depot

45.33+0.06(+0.13)

DailyFinance Headlines

AOL Business News

BioHealth Investor Headlines

Sponsored Links

My Portfolios

Track your stocks here!

Find out why more people track their portfolios on AOL Money & Finance then anywhere else.

BloggingStocks Partners

More from AOL Money & Finance

Page Loaded in 1329055701004 ms.