New York — Oil was mixed on Thursday, with US crude slipping and Brent futures little changed after data showed an unexpected build in US crude oil stockpiles. US crude futures were down 58c at $73.56 a barrel by 4pm GMT, still in sight of Tuesday’s three-and-a-half-year high above $75. Brent crude futures were up 11c at $78.35 a barrel. US crude stockpiles rose 1.3-million barrels last week, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), against analysts’ expectations of a 3.5-million-barrel decline. "An unexpected build in the US commercial crude inventory has prompted profit-taking," said Abhishek Kumar, senior energy analyst at Interfax Energy in London. Inventories at Cushing, Oklahoma, however, the delivery point for US crude futures, fell to their lowest since December 2014. On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump accused oil cartel Opec of driving up fuel prices. "The OPEC Monopoly must remember that gas prices are up & they are doing little to help,"...
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