<p>The price of crude oil was tumbling on Wednesday after the <a href="http://ir.eia.gov/wpsr/wpsrsummary.pdf">latest data</a> from the EIA showed another increase in crude oil inventories last week. </p><p>Near 10:35 a.m. ET, West Texas Intermediate crude oil, the US benchmark, was down over 3% to as low as $36.14 a barrel. Earlier this week WTI fell below $35 a barrel for the first time in seven years.</p><p>The latest EIA report showed inventories rose by another 4.8 million barrels last week to 490.7 million barrels. </p><p>In its release the EIA noted that, "inventories remain near levels not seen for this time of year in at least the last 80 years."</p><p>On Tuesday, crude oil prices rose about 3% as stocks rallied ahead of Wednesday's expected announcement of an interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve. </p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5671856472f2c12a008b6111-800-400/screen shot 2015-12-16 at 10.35.46 am.png" alt="Screen Shot 2015 12 16 at 10.35.46 AM" data-mce-source="investing.com" /><p class="source"><span>investing.com</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ian-bremmer-oil-prices-low-energy-eurasia-group-2015-12">Ian Bremmer: Angela Merkel is going to have a bad 2016</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="w2NThneTrW_N2Dl_B5BIX9tKrXB1cdoT" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'w2NThneTrW_N2Dl_B5BIX9tKrXB1cdoT',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

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