SUBSCRIBER NOTE: Additional EIA weekly crude stocks symbols added

Starting the week ended October 7, 2016, the US Energy Information Administration has removed lease stocks from the weekly commercial crude stock data.

The following symbols have been created to replace the existing symbols. The data including lease stocks remains available under the old symbols up to the week ended September 30, 2016. The new symbols will start updating soon, and the available historical data will be backfilled.

The existing symbols:

MDC Symbol Bates Dec Freq Curr UOM Description AO EIAHU00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 9 Crude Comml PADD1 Stks AT EIAHV00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 9 Crude Comml PADD2 Stks AH EIAHX00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 9 Crude Comml PADD3 Stks AF EIAHY00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 9 Crude Comml PADD4 Stks AI EIAHZ00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 9 Crude Comml PADD5 Stks AS EIAS500 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 9 Crude (incl SPR) US Stks AS EIAA300 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 1 Crude US Stks AS EIABB00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 1 Crude Comml (ex SPR) US Stks

To be replaced with:

MDC Symbol Bates Dec Freq Curr UOM Description AO EIAWB00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 9 Crude Comml PADD1 Stks Excluding Lease Stocks AT EIAWC00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 9 Crude Comml PADD2 Stks Excluding Lease Stocks AH EIAWE00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 9 Crude Comml PADD3 Stks Excluding Lease Stocks AF EIAWF00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 9 Crude Comml PADD4 Stks Excluding Lease Stocks AI EIAWI00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 9 Crude Comml PADD5 Stks Excluding Lease Stocks AS EIAWJ00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 9 Crude (incl SPR) US Stks Excluding Lease Stocks AS EIAWK00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 1 Crude US Stks Excluding Lease Stocks AS EIAWL00 u 3 WA N/A MBB EIA 1 Crude Comml (ex SPR) US Stks Excluding Lease Stocks

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