Crude-oil futures were mixed in choppy trade in Asia Tuesday as investors took profit ahead of the release of weekly U.S. inventory data, while talks of a possible meeting among the major oil producers injected some optimism into the market. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in November traded at $46.25 a barrel at 0349 GMT, down $0.01 in the Globex electronic session. November Brent crude on London’s ICE Futures exchange rose $0.09 to $49.34 a barrel. “The market is very risk averse and people are not willing to take on longterm bets,” said a Singapore-based trader who specializes in marine fuel. Oil prices rose nearly 2 percent overnight on Wall Street on a report that the number of active oil rigs in the U.S. decreased by 26 to 614 last week, extending a recent streak of declines. The figure is viewed as […]