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Urgent: Oil prices drop amid ample supplies

Xinhua, January 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Oil prices lost Monday on market expectation that global supply would surpass the demand.

Light, sweet crude for March delivery dropped 44 cents to settle at 45.15 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Endite