U.S. crude oil stocks fell last week, confounding expectations that inventories would rise to make up for the previous week’s drawdown, which was the biggest in 15 years, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed on Wednesday. Crude inventories fell 559,000 barrels in the week ended Sept. 9, compared with expectations in a Reuters poll for an increase of 3.8 million barrels. It comes one week after a drop of more than 14 million barrels that was attributed to the effects of Tropical Storm Hermine, which sat off the U.S. Gulf Coast for several days. U.S. crude imports recovered last week, rising 1.1 million barrels per day after plummeting 1.7 million bpd the previous week to a record […]