West Texas Intermediate crude advanced for a second day after China ’s manufacturing topped estimates in November, signaling the world’s second-biggest oil consumer is sustaining its economic growth. Futures rose as much as 0.6 percent in New York . China’s Purchasing Managers ’ Index was 51.4, the National Bureau of Statistics and China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said yesterday, a result that exceeded 24 out of 26 projections in a Bloomberg News survey. OPEC will keep its oil-production quota unchanged at 30 million barrels a day at a meeting this week in Vienna, according to a separate Bloomberg News survey. U.S. manufacturing data for November is to be released today. “The oil market doesn’t normally care about PMI numbers unless they are different from the consensus like today,” Bjornar Tonhaugen, senior commodities analyst at Oslo-based Nordea Bank AG, said by phone, referring to the Chinese purchasing managers’ index. […]