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• Oil’s Advance Continues as Crude Prices Make Fresh 10-Month High
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  The rise in oil prices continued on Wednesday as the U.S. crude benchmark made a fresh 10-month high, a worrying sign for short-term inflationary pressures that could influence Federal Reserve interest-rate policy.

  
  

  Continuous-contract futures for West Texas Intermediate crude gained 1.7% to above $91.90 a barrel on Wednesday, taking the rise in prices across the past month to 12.5%. It marks the highest level for the oil benchmark since November 2022.

  
  

  Oil’s advance in recent months—crude prices are up 35% since late June—has been a key force behind persistent headline inflation, with the cost of energy driving an uptick in both consumer- and producer-level inflation data for August.

  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
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• ☕️What Else is Brewing Wednesday Morning
  Federal Communications Commission proposed reinstating net neutrality...
  Federal Communications Commission proposed reinstating net neutrality rules, requiring internet providers to treat data coming to and from all websites equally; regulations were rescinded in late 2017 (More)
  
  Hollywood writers are officially back to work after Writers Guild of America leaders voted to end the 148-day strike and put a tentative deal with producers to their members for a vote. But actors are still on strike.
  
  Target said it will close nine stores in New York City, Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland because of organized retail crime.
  
  An Apple exec told the court in the government’s antitrust suit against Google that it kept Google as the default search option for its devices because “there wasn’t a valid alternative.”
  
  The Senate reached a spending deal to avoid a government shutdown—but it probably won’t pass in the House.
  
  Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani, claiming he misused personal information from a laptop the president’s son reportedly left at a repair shop.
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• API Reports a Build in Crude Oil Inventories
  The American Petroleum Institute (API) has reported a build of 1.586 million barrels in U.S....
  The American Petroleum Institute (API) has reported a build of 1.586 million barrels in U.S. crude inventories, compared to last week’s large 5.25-million-barrel draw.
  
  Analysts were expecting an inventory draw of 1.650 million barrels for the week. The total number of barrels of crude oil moves so far this year is – 4 million, according to API data, and there is a net draw in crude inventories since April of more than 51 million barrels.
  
  On Monday, the Department of Energy (DoE) reported that crude oil inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) rose by 300,000 barrels last week, with the SPR inventory still sitting at a near 40-year low of 351.5 million barrels, with total purchases for the SPR coming in at less than 4 million barrels since the Biden Administration began its buyback program.
  
  Cushing inventories fell by another 828,000 barrels, after falling 2.564 million barrels last week, leaving less than 22 million barrels in Cushing.
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• Closing Oil & Gas Prices
  Benchmark U.S. crude oil for November delivery...
  Benchmark U.S. crude oil for November delivery rose 71 cents to $90.39 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for November delivery rose 67 cents to $93.96 a barrel.
  
  Wholesale gasoline for October delivery rose 2 cents to $2.56 a gallon. October heating oil fell 4 cents to $3.22 a gallon. October natural gas rose 2 cents to $2.66 per 1,000 cubic feet.
  
  
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• Dow sheds almost 390 points, posts worst day since March
  U.S. stocks closed sharply lower Tuesday, with the Dow booking...
  U.S. stocks closed sharply lower Tuesday, with the Dow booking its worst daily drop since the March banking crisis as the rout in equities resumed.
  
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA shed about 388 points, or 1.1%, ending near 33,618. That cemented the Dow’s biggest daily percentage drop since March 22. It also finished below its 200-day moving average, which matters for investors because it signals a break in an upward trend for the index. The Dow last broke below the same support level on May 25. Losses were even sharper for the S&P 500 Index, SPX which fell 1.5%, and for the Nasdaq Composite Index, COMP, -1.57% which shed 1.6%.
  
  The 10-year Treasury yield TMUBMUSD10Y, 4.553% was at 4.558%, the highest since October 2007, pushing up costs of funding in the U.S. economy.
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