SINGAPORE: Oil prices recovered in Asian trade Thursday following a drop triggered by fresh economic data that highlighted global growth concerns, analysts said.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in July added eight cents to $93.21 a barrel in the afternoon and Brent North Sea crude for July delivery increased 29 cents to $102.72.
Both contracts closed almost $2 lower on Wednesday after the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, which groups industrial economies, trimmed its forecast for 2013 world economic growth to 3.1 percent from 3.4 percent.
"Prices have ticked up a little bit. What we are seeing is normal trading in a market where everyone is trying to manage their risks," Shailaja Nair, associate editorial director for Asia at energy market information provider Platts, told.
