Crude oil inventories in the United States decreased this week by 1.246 million barrels, the American Petroleum Institute (API) data showed on Wednesday.Analysts were expecting a smaller 433,000-barrel draw in U.S. crude-oil inventories. The total number of barrels of crude oil gained so far this year is more than 38 million barrels, although the net draw in crude inventories since April is more than 8 million barrels. On Monday, the Department of Energy (DoE) reported that it sold another 1.7 million barrels of crude in the week ending June 16…
