Quick Overview

• The U.S. deficit in international trade of goods and services shrank 2.4%.
  

• Australia's unemployment rate fell from 4.3% to 4.2%.
  

• The International Coffee Organization kept its guess of 2007-2008 world production and consumption unchanged at 114 and 122 million bags.
  
  

• The U.S. Department of Energy said that:
  Supplies of crude oil supplies fell 1.7 million barrels to 320.1 million barrels
  Supplies of gasoline rose 1.7 million barrels
  Supplies of heating oil rose 1.0 million barrels
  Gasoline demand fell o.4% YoY
  Distillate demand rose 1.3% YoY
  Underground supplies of natural gas rose 73 billion cubic to 3.336 trillion cubic feet.