West Texas Intermediate crude trimmed its worst start to any year since 2009 amid estimates U.S. fuel stockpiles increased for a third week, signaling slowing demand in the world’s biggest oil consumer. Futures gained as much as 0.6 percent in New York , paring their decline since Dec. 31 to 6.2 percent. Distillate inventories, including heating oil and diesel, probably rose by 1.38 million barrels last week, a Bloomberg News survey showed before Energy Information Administration data tomorrow. Deutsche Bank AG lowered its 2014 forecasts for WTI and Brent amid “rampant U.S. oil-supply growth.” “We’re bearish for the first few months of the year,” said Frank Klumpp, an analyst at Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart, Germany . “The market will be driven by the supply side in 2014. Maybe the trend of better-than-expected U.S. supplies will continue in 2014.” WTI for February delivery rose as much as 53 cents to […]