Oil stocks rise ad crude stocks fall

This year, oil and gas investors had little to cheer about. The US-China trade war has kept the market a lid on concerns of a global economic slowdown. In the Middle East, the tensions triggered by drone strikes and oil tankers attacks did not contribute to the sentiment, apart from the short-term price spikes.

Yet Wednesday, after the data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), auction hunters returned to the sector showi....