Список проголосовавших за комментарий " Morning Commodities: Crude erases nearly all of yesterday's losses ahead of tonight's API; gold holds firm near yesterday's 2-month high as the dollar index trades flat<ul><li><strong>Crude oil erased nearly all of yesterday's losses ahead of tonight's API; EIA on tap for tomorrow at 10:30 am ET</strong><ul><li>Mar 2017 crude oil futures were up $0.41 (+0.8%) around the $53.16/barrel level</li><li>Contributing factors affecting the price of oil include:<ul><li>Earlier this morning, Iraq stated they were close to complying with an agreed cut allocation of 210k barrels/day.</li><li>A report this morning from Bernstein Energy circulating noted that global oil inventories declined by 24 mln barrels to 5.7 bln barrels in Q4 of 2016 vs. the previous quarter.</li><li><strong>Reminder:</strong> OPEC ministers and producers outside the group said on Sunday that of the almost 1.8 mln bpd they had agreed to remove from the market starting on Jan 1, 1.5 mln bpd had already been cut.</li><li><strong>Reminder:</strong> Baker Hughes rig count data released last Friday showed the biggest single weekly oil rig count increase in 4 years. The U.S. oil rig count increased by 29 to 551 rigs last week. It is worth noting that this pick-up in US activity could potentially cap oil price gains in the future.</li></ul></li><li>Upcoming data reminders:<ul><li><strong>Weekly API data will be released today after the bell.</strong></li><li>Weekly EIA petroleum data will be released this Wed at 10:30 am ET.</li><li>Weekly Baker Hughes rig count data will be released this Friday at 1 pm ET.</li></ul></li></ul></li><li><strong>Natural gas rallied off of yesterday's 2-week low ahead of Thurday's EIA</strong><ul><li>Feb 2017 natural gas futures were up $0.07 (+2.1%) around the $3.33/MMBtu level</li><li>Weekly EIA natural gas inventory data will be released on Thursday at 10:30 am ET.</li></ul></li><li><strong>In precious metals, gold held firm near yesterday's 2-month high & silver traded nearly flat</strong></li><li>The dollar index was nearly flat around the 100.13 level<ul><li>Commodities, as measured by the Bloomberg Commodity Index, were +0.7% around the 88.14 level</li></ul></li></ul>"