Crude-oil futures remained weak in Asian trading hours Thursday after this week’s sell-off, with the Brent-WTI spread hovering at around $5 a barrel, its narrowest in over six months. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in May traded at $99.44 a barrel at 0527 GMT, down $0.18 in the Globex electronic session. May Brent crude on London’s ICE Futures exchange rose $0.11 to $104.90 a barrel. Nymex WTI crude prices stayed under $100 a barrel in spite of U.S. crude-oil inventories falling unexpectedly for the week ended March 28. The Brent-WTI spread was at $5.40 a barrel. U.S. crude stockpiles fell by 2.4 million barrels to 380.1 million barrels, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed. Analysts had expected an increase of 700,000 barrels. Brent crude-oil prices struggled to stay in positive territory and mostly traded under $105 a […]