Oil Futures Maintain Post-API Selloff

Oil futures remained lower in midday Asian trading Wednesday, maintaining the added decline seen after a U.S. industry group released its weekly inventory report.

--March light, sweet crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange was recently down 0.8% at $63.96 a barrel in the Globex trading session after logging its biggest drop in nearly two months Tuesday at 1.6%. March Brent was recently down 0.7% at $68.52.

--The American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday that U.S. inventories rose 3.2 million barrels last week, nearly double the increase expected to be in Wednesday's government report.

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January 30, 2018 23:43 ET (04:43 GMT)