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Urgent: Oil prices drop on profit-taking

Xinhua, February 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Oil prices dropped Thursday as traders took profit of the previous day's gains.

Light, sweet crude for April delivery lost 2.82 U.S. dollars to settle at 48.17 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Endite