At 3:50 pm (Brasília time), this Wednesday (28th), the WTI spot contract registered an increase of 1.45% and was traded at US$ 63.85 / barrel on the New York Stock Exchange. The commodity market continued the gains from yesterday, assimilating the Federal Reserve's (FED) Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision to keep the United States' basic interest rate between 0% and 0.25% . In addition, the UK Government Public Health Agency announced today that the disease vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford / AstraZeneca can cut the transmission of the virus in half. The Information and Energy Administration (EIA) also reported today that oil inventories in the United States increased by 90,000 barrels in the last week, well below the projection of an increase of 660,000 barrels. Although yesterday (27), the American Petroleum Institute (API, in English) showed growth of 4.319 million barrels
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