Crude oil -updates

Crude oil :

• The Department of Energy reported Wednesday that distillate stocks — which includes heating oil and diesel fuel — fell by 3 million barrels last week. Analysts surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had expected supplies to fall by 4.3 million barrels.
• The Energy Department said crude oil inventories fell last week by 600,000 barrels to 323.9 million barrels, below analysts' expectations of a 1.1-million-barrel gain. The inventories are at the upper end of average.