Oil futures are lower in Asian trading hours Thursday as minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting in October revealed that officials at the Fed still expect to start reducing its stimulus in “coming months”. The release of the meeting’s details sent risk sentiment down and the U.S. dollar sharply higher against major Asian currencies. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in January traded at $93.54 a barrel at 0459 GMT, down $0.31 in the Globex electronic session. January Brent crude on London’s ICE Futures exchange fell $0.39 to $107.67 a barrel. The downward move was a contrast against short-lived gains overnight that were boosted by data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, which said crude stockpiles climbed by 375,000 barrels to 388.5 million barrels in the week ended Nov. 15. Analysts had expected inventories to rise by 700,000 […]