Crude-oil futures were mostly stable in Asian trade Tuesday, after posting losses in the previous trading session. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in March traded at $45.27 a barrel at 0435 GMT, up $0.12 in the Globex electronic session. Brent crude for March delivery rose $0.16 to $48.32 a barrel on London’s ICE Futures exchange. Oil markets appear to be consolidating with prices moving in a narrow price range for most of January, but analysts said prices are still at risk of falling further as the global oil surplus is expected to continue to rise in the first half of this year. China, the world’s second-largest oil consumer, has lowered its target for industrial-output growth to around 8% this year from 9.5% in 2014, as a slowing economy makes it difficult to boost industrial activity, a ministry spokesman said […]