Crude oil futures advanced in Asia morning trades today as President
Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner expressed optimism about a
deal to solve the upcoming “fiscal cliff” yesterday boosting the risky
assets.
President Obama told a televised news conference that “my
hope is to get this done before Christmas,” referring to a political
compromise over the upcoming automatic $600 billion-plus of U.S. tax
hikes and spending cuts which investors worry will depress the U.S.
economy.
The fiscal cliff refers to the hundreds of billions of
dollars of tax increases and spending cuts that will kick in from
January unless U.S. politicians reach an agreement to avert the event.
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner voiced optimism
Wednesday over an agreement to avert the cliff.
Also supporting
oil today is the data which showed that crude supplies fell by 300,000
barrels for the week ended Nov. 23, the Energy Information
Administration reported Wednesday. Analysts polled by Platts expected a
500,000-barrel increase.
The American Petroleum Institute reported late Tuesday that crude supplies rose 2 million barrels last week.
Crude-oil
futures for January delivery are trading up23 cents at $86.72 a barrel
on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Yesterday, it fell 69 cents, or
0.8%, to settle at $86.49 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Earlier, they touched a low of $85.36.
Oil fell yesterday, for
third straight session as fiscal-cliff and Greek-debt woes helped feed
demand concerns, but prices finished off their lows of the day following
an unexpected decline in last week’s U.S. crude supplies.
MCX December crude oil futures may open today’s session near Rs 4831 levels with resistance near Rs 4870 levels.
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