NYMEX crude falls on weak refiner demand

摘要

New York-NYMEX June crude settled 25 cents lower at $60.50/b Wednesday after data from the US Energy Information Admin- istration showed refinery demand plunged last week. Crude runs fell 379,000 b/d to 15.968 million b/d. The refinery utilization rate decreased 1.8 percentage points, the biggest weekly drop since January, to 91.2% of oper- able capacity.