%{{tag.tag}} {{articledata.title}} {{moment(articledata.cdate)}} @{{articledata.company.replace(" ","")}} comment Investing.com -- U.S. crude oil futures received a slight boost in post-settlement trading Tuesday after the American Petroleum Institute reported a larger-than-expected decline in weekly domestic crude stocks. Crude Oil WTI Futures, the U.S. benchmark, traded at $75.89 a barrel following the report after settling down 2.4%% at $75.53 a barrel. U.S. crude inventories decreased by about 3.4M barrels for the week ended Aug. 23, compared with a build of 347,000 barrels reported by the API for the previous week. Economists were expecting a decline of about 3M (NYSE:MMM) barrels. Gasoline stockpiles fell by about 1.9M barrels, while distillate inventories -- the class of fuels that includes diesel and heating oil -- fell by 1.4M barrels. The official government inventory report is due Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT).This content was originally published on http://Investing.com