Crude inventory falls by 2.4M barrels for week ended August 22 – EIA

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* Commercial crude stocks for the week ended August 22: 418.3M barrels.
* Crude inventory change: -2.4M barrels vs. -6.0M barrels for the week ended August 15.
* Consensus estimate: -2.000M
* Gasoline inventory change: -1.2M barrels vs. -2.7M barrels for the week ended August 15.
* Consensus estimate: -2.500M.
* Distillates inventory change: -1.8M barrels vs. 2.3M barrels for the week ended August 15.
* Consensus estimate: 1.100M.
* SPR: 0.8M vs 0.2M for the week ended August 15.
* Crude oil futures (CL1:COM [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/CL1:COM]) +0.8%
* ETFs: (USO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/USO]), (UCO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/UCO]), (SCO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/SCO]), (BNO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/BNO]), (DBO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/DBO]), (USL [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/USL]).

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