oil futures ticked up slightly tuesday a day after fears of a potential lockdown of beijing in response to rising covid19 cases sparked demand fears   west texas intermediate crude for june delivery cl1 cl00 clm22 rose 17 cents or 02 to 9871 a barrel on the new york mercantile exchange   june brent crude brnm22 rose 35 cents or 03 to 10267 a barrel on ice futures europe wti fell 35 monday while brent lost more than 4   may naturalgas futures ngk22 rose 45 to 697 per million british thermal units   may gasoline rbk22 was little changed near 3239 a gallon while june heating oil was up 05 at 3674 a gallon beijing on tuesday was enforcing covid19 lockdowns and expanding testing in an effort to contain a covid outbreak in the capital news reports said a lockdown of shanghai the nation’s largest city and major financial and commercial hub has already amplified worries over china’s economic growth prospects a close below 9350 for wti would confirm a break of an upward trend line testing the lows of march and the first half of april said alex kuptsikevich fxpro senior market analyst in a note “on the side of the bears is the slowdown of economic growth in china the threat of a fall in consumption due to the expanding lockdowns and the risk that beijing may also soon be closed” the analyst said “if oil gets fixed under 9350 like in the case of gold before we might see a relatively quick surrender of the bull speculators which would take the price back to 82508500 the area of october peaks and the 200day moving average” he wrote