Oil prices rose slightly amid volatile trading in Asia on Wednesday, with the market largely focusing on over-supply ahead of a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries next month. “We are likely to see the kind of volatility … particularly as you hear different things from different ministers” before the OPEC meeting, said Virendra Chauhan, oil analyst at Singapore-based Energy Aspect. “There is a little bit of geo-political risk, but the fundamentals remain bearish. In this kind of market, 50 cents up or down is more or less just noise.” Oil prices had nudged up immediately after the weekend attacks in Paris and retaliatory French air strikes on Islamic state strongholds in Syria, causing some concern about potential disruption of oil output from the region. Since then, prices have been trading in a narrow range with small moves both upward and downward as traders weighed the […]