EUR/USD
1.17922
-0.016%
Gold
4483.19
-0.024%
Oil
58.293
-0.147%
USD/JPY
155.807
-0.284%
GBP/USD
1.35223
0.037%
GBP/JPY
210.613
-0.243%
Real-time News
According to futures market news on December 24th, as of the week ending December 20th, Japanese commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 264,762 kiloliters from the previous week to 9,958,810 kiloliters. Japanese gasoline inventories increased by 69,303 kiloliters from the previous week to 1,783,685 kiloliters. Japanese kerosene inventories decreased by 118,036 kiloliters from the previous week to 2,154,773 kiloliters. The average operating rate of Japanese refineries was 89.3%, compared to 90.8% the previous week.Sources say BP expects to receive a net gain of approximately $6 billion.Sources say the deal will value Castrol at $10 billion, including debt.Sources say BP (BP.N) is close to reaching an agreement to sell a majority stake in Castrols lubricants division to Stonepeak.December 24th - From January to November, total electricity consumption in China reached 9,460.2 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 5.2%, of which industrial power generation by enterprises above designated size was 8,856.7 billion kilowatt-hours. By sector, primary industry electricity consumption was 137.4 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 10.3%; secondary industry electricity consumption was 6,043.6 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 3.7%, with industrial electricity consumption increasing by 3.9% and high-tech and equipment manufacturing electricity consumption increasing by 6.4%; tertiary industry electricity consumption was 1,820.4 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 8.5%, with charging and swapping services and information transmission, software and information technology services increasing by 48.3% and 16.8% respectively; and residential electricity consumption was 1,458.8 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%.
