yesterday the day of WTI oil prices (West Texas Intermediate) rose to US$80.42 a barrel in the New York market, while Brent crude closed at US$86.32, in the United Kingdom.
Earlier, the price of a barrel of Brent oil traded at 86.20, rising about +0.07 US$ (+0.08%) compared to the previous close of the Brent price on the European ICE exchange (for delivery by March 2023).
The crude price portal indicates that a new Reuters survey of 30 economists and analysts predicted that the Brent benchmark will stand at an average of US$89.37 in 2023, -4.6% below the estimate of US$93.65 in November 2022. .
The commercial crude oil reserves increased last week in the United States, although less than expected, representing the fifth consecutive weekly increase, according to figures published on Wednesday by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), he says.
Meanwhile, the week ending January 20, the stock of crude oil increased by about 500,000 barrelswhile analysts expected the rise to be three times May, 1.5 million barrels.
