Crude-oil futures were choppy in Asian trade Friday, with Brent crude ticking marginally higher as investors weighed volatile currency markets and ahead of this week’s U.S. rig count data. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in traded at $ a barrel at , in the Globex electronic session. Brent crude on London’s ICE Futures exchange to $ a barrel. Oil prices had resumed their decline in the last trading session with Nymex crude losing 1.6% and Brent down by 2.6% on rising U.S. oil stockpiles and a strong U.S. dollar. The latest U.S. drilling rig-count numbers from oil services company Baker Hughes will be released later today. Executives from oil services companies expect Brent crude prices to average $75 a barrel by end-March 2016, Gordon Kwan, head of oil research at Nomura, said in a report. He […]