Brent crude traded near its lowest closing level in nine months before the European Central Bank announced its monthly decision on monetary policy. West Texas Intermediate was near a six-month low. Futures were little changed in London. ECB officials led by President Mario Draghi are forecast by economists in Bloomberg News surveys to keep the main refinancing rate at a record-low 0.15 percent and the deposit rate at minus 0.1 percent. In Iraq , Kurdish exports remain unaffected by turmoil that also has spared supply from the nation’s south, home to more than three-quarters of its crude output. “I don’t expect any more rate cuts or measures right now, but if the ECB have something in the wording, it can impact the euro-dollar and so impact oil prices,” Andy Sommer, an analyst at Axpo Trading AG in Dietikon, Switzerland, said by phone. “Prices are a little bit below fair […]