Crude-oil futures pared early losses in Asian trade Monday but were still trading marginally lower on demand concerns and amid lingering fears over volatility in China’s markets after Asia’s top oil consumer cut its growth rate for last year. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in October traded at $45.79 a barrel at 0329 GMT, down $0.26 in the Globex electronic session. October Brent crude on London’s ICE Futures exchange fell $0.32 to $49.29 a barrel. Nymex and Brent futures regained some ground after having fallen as much as 1.6% earlier in the session. Oil prices had ended mixed last week, with Nymex crude gaining 1.8% while Brent crude lost 0.9%. Nymex crude has risen for two consecutive weeks and Brent crude has fallen for eight of the past 10 weeks; both oil benchmarks are down by around 13%-14% year-to-date. […]