Список проголосовавших за комментарий " <table class="BriefingDataTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr> <td class="tickerColumn"> </td> <td class="articleColumn">Morning Commodities: Crude now on track to extend yesterday's gain despite EIA reporting inventory builds above Consensus for both crude & gasoline stocks; natural gas futures rally on headlines of an early morning pipeline explosion in Texas<ul><li><strong>Crude oil initially declined to the midpoint of earlier post-API session lows following EIA data which showed crude & gas inventory builds well above Consensus, then reversed direction & broke out to fresh session highs in a volatile pit trading session post-EIA</strong><ul><li>Mar 2017 crude oil futures were up about $0.20 (+0.4%) around the $53.45/barrel level</li><li><strong>Baker Hughes rig count data will be released Friday at 1 pm ET.</strong></li><li>EIA highlights:<ul><li>Crude oil inventories had a build of +9.5 mln barrels (consensus called for a build of about +3.513 mln barrels).</li><li>Gasoline inventories had a build of +2.8 mln barrels (consensus called for a draw of -0.752 mln barrels).</li><li>Distillate inventories had a draw of -0.7 mln barrels.</li></ul></li><li>Other factors affecting oil prices to consider:<ul><li>The dollar index was near a 3-week high earlier in the session & is not too far from a 14-year high hit late last year.</li><li>US shale oil production is expected to increase by 80k bpd in Mar 2017, the largest increase in the last 5 months.</li><li>Libya and Nigeria's crude oil production rose by 10k bpd and 100k bpd respectively in Jan 2017, compared to last month.</li><li>Iran's crude oil production rose by 50k bpd to 3.8 MMbpd in Jan 2017, compared to last month.</li><li><strong>Reminder:</strong> The EIA noted in their monthly oil market report they expect US crude oil production to rise to a 48-year high in 2018.</li></ul></li></ul></li><li><strong>Natural gas futures rallied to session highs & remained on track to test the $3.00/MMBtu resistance zone on headlines of an early morning pipeline explosion in Texas</strong><ul><li>Mar 2017 natural gas futures were up about $0.05 (+1.6%) around the $2.95/MMBtu level</li><li>EIA natural gas storage data will be released tomorrow at 10:30 am ET.</li></ul></li><li><strong>In precious metals, silver retreated from yesterday's 3-month high on continued strength in the dollar index</strong><ul><li>April 2017 gold futures were nearly flat around the $1225.60/oz level</li><li>Mar 2017 silver futures were down about $0.02 (-0.1%) around the $17.88/oz level</li></ul></li><li><strong>The dollar index was +0.1% around the 101.30 level</strong><ul><li>Commodities, as measured by the Bloomberg Commodity Index, were +0.2% around the 88.78 level</li></ul></li></ul></td> </tr></table>"