Crude-oil futures are mostly flat in Asian trading hours Tuesday as investors monitor the status of U.S. oil inventory levels, global demand-supply balances and economic growth indicators. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in March traded at $100.05 a barrel at 0554 GMT, down $0.01 in the Globex electronic session. March Brent crude on London’s ICE Futures exchange rose $0.05 to $108.68 a barrel. Nymex West Texas Intermediate crude settled at its highest level this year in overnight floor trade after rising for five straight sessions. U.S. oil markets are supported by strong heating oil demand this winter and expectations that oil inventories at the oil delivery hub of Cushing, Okla. fell again last week after the easing of pipeline bottlenecks. The weekly oil inventory data from the American Petroleum Institute, a trade body, is due later in the trading day. “While declining […]