China consumer prices rebound
AFP, BEIJING
China’s consumer prices rebounded last month, official data showed yesterday, as food prices picked up due to weather difficulties and rising demand ahead of the Lunar New Year festival.
The consumer price index (CPI) rose more than expected at 0.2 percent year-on-year, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics said, with prices increasing for fresh produce and meats, such as pork, beef and mutton, ahead of next month’s nationwide holiday.
“Due to continued low temperatures, the production, storage and transportation costs of fresh vegetables and fruit increased,” bureau senior statistician Dong Lijuan (董莉娟) said.
Vendors wait for customers at a seafood market in Beijing yesterday.
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U.S. oil imports, exports up last week: EIA
U.S. crude oil imports and exports both increased during the week ending Jan. 1, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Wednesday.
U.S. crude oil imports averaged 5.4 million barrels per day (b/d) last week, up by about 43,000 b/d from the previous week, while crude oil exports averaged about 3.6 million b/d, up by about 7,000 b/d from the previous week, according to the Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
Over the past four weeks, crude oil imports averaged about 5.4 million b/d, down by about 1.2 million b/d year on year, while crude oil exports averaged about 3.2 million b/d, down by about 393,000 b/d year on year.
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2021-01-07 21:35:14 GMT2021-01-08 05:35:14(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HOUSTON, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) Working gas storage in the contiguous United States was 3,330 billion cubic feet (about 94.30 billion cubic meters) in the week ending Jan. 1, a net decrease of 130 billion cubic feet, or 3.8 percent, from the previous week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Thursday in a report.
The total working gas storage increased by 4.3 percent from this time last year, or 6.4 percent above the five-year average, according to the EIA s Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report.
The storage of working gas usually turns to decrease in November and continues to drop in April when heating season ends in the country, according to previous data.