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Market Close: July 29 Mixed

Fueling Strategy: Please fuel as needed today/tonight BUT plan on Thursday’s 2 cent drop in prices – Be Safe Tonight
NYMEX Crude    $ 41.27 UP $.2300
NYMEX ULSD     $1.2533 UP $.0112
NYMEX Gas       $1.2415 DN $.0241
NEWS
Oil prices inched up on Wednesday after a steep drop in U.S. crude inventories, but another record day for coronavirus cases worldwide kept gains in check. Brent crude futures gained 45 cents to $43.67 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were up 23 cents to $41.27.

U.S. crude oil inventories fell by 10.6 million barrels last week to 526 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration said, in their largest drawdown since December. Net U.S. crude imports fell 1 million barrels per day to 1.9 million bpd, the EIA said. “If we are seeing a draw down, that is a key indicator in terms of largely a market that’s starting to move more aggressively into balance,” said CHS Hedging analyst Tony Headrick. The fall in crude stocks was likely a result of supply cuts by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, which were agreed-upon in April, finally being realized.

A record number of new coronavirus infections were reported globally, while in the United States, deaths from the novel coronavirus were approaching 150,000, the highest level in the world and rising by 10,000 in 11 days, according to a Reuters tally. “The virus is spreading like wildfire across the Americas while Europe and Asia are displaying worrying signs of a second surge in cases,” said Stephen Brennock of oil brokerage PVM. Six U.S. states reported one-day records for coronavirus deaths on Tuesday and Texas cases passed the 400,000 mark. Attempts to provide relief amid the outbreak were in disarray after Republicans in the United States on Tuesday disagreed over their own plan for providing $1 trillion in new coronavirus aid.

Indian refiners are cutting crude processing and shutting units for maintenance as fuel demand falters, officials at the companies said.

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Loren R Bailey, President
Fuel Manager Services Inc.
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loren: Fuel Manager Services Inc. "Serving the trucking industry since 1992" I've been in and around the trucking industry for 45-years beginning in owner operator operations at Willis Shaw Express. I bought a small trucking company that I ran for 6-years then sold and went to work for J.B. Hunt Transport in 1982. After 10-years with Hunt, I started Fuel Manager Services, Inc., we are in our 29th year of serving the American trucking companies. Our simple goal was and is to bridge the gap between the trucking companies and the fuel suppliers.