A US-based company is developing an eVTOL aircraft for commercial passenger service and is expected to start operations by 2025 or early 2026
Benchmark crude was down 32 cents to $93.35 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.47 on Tuesday to settle at $93.67 in New York.
In London, Brent crude was down 38 cents at $111.62 on the ICE Futures exchange.
Crude has jumped from below $78 in June despite signs of weak economic growth and no official confirmation of expectations of another round of major monetary stimulus by the US or Europe. Investor optimism has sparked a global stock market rally this week, which has helped carry crude prices higher.
The surge in crude has also been fed this week by supply disruptions after a fire at a Chevron refinery in California and pipeline explosions in Turkey that were carrying crude from Iraq.
“This week’s price advance has easily exceeded our expectations and would appear to have some legs for further gains,” energy trader and consultant Ritterbusch and Associates said in a report. “Supply disruptions are always difficult to predict but we will also suggest that the pop in risk appetite in recent days has exceeded our expectations given limited hard news regarding central bank stimulus.”
The latest US supply data suggested demand may be improving. The American Petroleum Institute said crude inventories plunged 5.4 million barrels last week while analysts surveyed by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos., had predicted a drop of 300,000 barrels.
Gasoline supplies rose 417,000 barrels last week, the API said.
In other Nymex energy trading, wholesale gasoline futures were down 1.1 cents at $2.98 a gallon and heating oil slid 1.1 cents to $2.99. Natural gas was down 1.4 cents at $2.95 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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