Wall Street Journal | Oil Flips Higher on Surprise Drop in Inventories Wall Street Journal Oil prices flipped higher Wednesday on a surprise drop in crude inventories. Light, sweet crude for June delivery rose 48 cents, or 1.1%, to $45.14 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent, the global benchmark, rose 82 cents, or 1.8%, to ... Oil seesaws as stockpiles data offset Nigeria disruption Oil prices may be finding a broadly welcomed equilibrium US crude eases ahead of government inventory data |