The American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a huge build of 9.88 million barrels of United States crude oil inventories for the week ending October 19, compared to analyst expectations that this week would see a hefty build in crude oil inventories of 3.694 million barrels . Last week, the American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a surprise draw in crude oil inventories of 2.13 million barrels for the week. One day later, the Energy Information Administration reported a build instead, of 6.5 million barrels . The API reported a draw in gasoline inventories as well for week ending October 19 in the amount of 2.8 million barrels. Analysts had predicted a draw of 1.878 million barrels for the week . Oil prices were down sharply in afternoon trading prior to the release of the API data on inventories as the stock market lost ground earlier in the day. While the […]