CNBC | Oil settles at $45.72, down 5.1% at 5-week low, after big US stockpile rise CNBC Oil prices slid nearly 5 percent on Wednesday after the U.S. government reported an unexpected increase in crude inventories, fanning fears that output cuts by major world oil producers have not drained a global glut very much. Crude stocks in the ... Oil is just getting hammered today, plummeting 4.5% on OPEC tensions, growing stockpiles Oil prices slide on unexpected jump in US inventories Oil plunges in surprise as gasoline prices drop |