Crude oil prices rose slightly after the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory build of 1.4 million barrels for the week to November 15. At 450.4 million barrels, the EIA said, inventories were some 3 percent above seasonal limits. Analysts had expected a build of 1.062 million barrels , after the EIA reported yet another weekly inventory increase for the first week of November, at 2.2 million barrels. With last week’s build, the total increase in U.S. crude oil inventories over the past two months comes in at more than 32 million barrels. Besides rising crude stocks, the EIA also reported a 1.8-million-barrel rise in gasoline stockpiles for the week to November 15, and a 1-million-barrel decline in distillate fuel inventories. This compares with a 1.9-million-barrel build in gasoline inventories for the week before, and a decline of 2.5 million barrels in distillate fuel inventories. Refineries last […]