Crude-oil futures held on to overnight gains in Asian trading hours Friday ahead of key U.S. jobs data and amid some doubts over the re-opening of Libya’s eastern oil export terminals. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in May traded at $100.45 a barrel at 0514 GMT, up $0.16 in the Globex electronic session. May Brent crude on London’s ICE Futures exchange rose $0.04 to $106.19 a barrel. Financial markets expect the U.S. Labor Department’s March jobs report due later Friday to shed light on the state of the world’s largest economy, with forecasts of an increase in hiring after the recent winter slowdown. Crude prices are likely to rally on better demand prospects, with the International Monetary Fund’s managing director Christine Largarde suggesting that there would be no hard landing in the Chinese economy, analyst Tan Chee Tat at […]