SELL 81.90 | STOP 83.40 | TAKE 79.80 | This week, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy (EIA) published reports on reserves. Thus, a decrease in volumes was recorded by 2,600 million barrels after a decrease of 4.022 million barrels a week earlier and by 1,962 million barrels from -0.959 million barrels earlier. As for trading volumes, according to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), demand for oil contracts has been steadily increasing since January 10 and amounted to 1.750 million per day the day before, compared with 0.950 million per day in the first week of the new year.