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Urgent: Oil prices retreat as inventories climb

Xinhua, February 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Oil prices retreated Wednesday as U.S. crude inventories increased last week.

Light, sweet crude for March delivery lost 4.60 U.S. dollars to settle at 48.45 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Endite