U.S. crude oil inventories down last week: API

HOUSTON, April 11 (Xinhua) -- The American Petroleum Institute (API) on Tuesday reported a decrease of 0.377 million barrels of crude oil in U.S. inventories for the week ending April 7.

Analysts expected a drop of 1.3 million barrels for this week.

The API reported a decline of 4.346 million barrels in the previous week.

U.S. oil prices saw material growth on Tuesday, due to the softening of the U