Crude-oil futures fell in Asian trading hours Thursday, with Nymex West Texas Intermediate dropping below $100 a barrel after settling higher for six of the last seven trading sessions. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in March traded at $99.66 a barrel at 0624 GMT, down $0.71 in the Globex electronic session. March Brent crude on London’s ICE Futures exchange fell $0.36 to $108.43 a barrel. Nymex crude was reacting to mixed oil-inventory data. U.S. crude-oil inventories rose 3.3 million barrels last week, the fourth weekly gain for domestic crude supplies, Energy Information Administration data showed. Analysts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had expected a 2.5 million-barrel increase in stockpiles. However, oil stocks at the delivery point for Nymex in Cushing, Okla. posted its largest weekly decline since July, falling by 2.7 million barrels on the opening of an extension of the […]