Oil: Bears take a breather, steadies before US jobs, EIA report

By FXStreet After a sharp sell-off in the previous session, oil benchmarks on both sides of Atlantic look to stabilize on Wednesday as focus now shifts towards the key US ADP data and EIA inventory report.

Oil trades modestly flat

Currently, both crude benchmarks are peaking into the green zone, with WTI up +0.27% at $ 43.77 while Brent oil also gains +0.16% to trade at $ 45.05. Oil prices took a pause from the previous sell-off as the black gold consolidates the downside heading towards main risk events for today, the US ADP jobs data and EIA stockpiles report, which is expected to show a rise of 176,000 barrels for last week.

Oil prices came under heavy selling pressure on Tuesday after the US dollar staged a solid rebound against its major competitors, while bearish API report combined with resurgence of global growth concerns also collaborated to the downbeat sentiment surrounding oil markets. Meanwhile, the API weekly crude reserves report showed that the US crude inventories climbed by 1.3 million barrels in the week to April 29.

Attention now shifts towards the weekly API crude stockpiles report due to be published later in the NY session, which will provide fresh hints on the demand …read more

Source:: FX Street