Brent crude declined for the third time in four days before manufacturing data from China, the world’s second-biggest oil consumer. West Texas Intermediate fell in New York . Futures dropped as much as 0.6 percent in London . An index of China’s factory output probably fell to 50 in September, a Bloomberg News survey showed before a preliminary reading from HSBC Holdings Plc tomorrow. That would be down from 50.2 for August. Libya was pumping 700,000 barrels a day of crude after it cut output at the Sharara field, National Oil Corp. said. “There’s some downward momentum in the market’s outlook for the Chinese economy at the moment,” Ric Spooner, a chief strategist at CMC Markets in Sydney, said by phone today. “The news has been consistently weak recently.” Brent for November settlement slid as much as 63 cents to $97.76 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe […]