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Urgent: Oil prices retreat on profit-taking

Xinhua, March 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

Crude prices retreated Friday as investors took profit from prior day's heavy gains.

Light, sweet crude for May delivery lost 2.56 U.S. dollars to settle at 48.87 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Endite