Oil-futures prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange rebounded Friday on short-covering after touching a more than 12-year low the previous day. Light, sweet crude futures on Nymex for delivery in March traded at $27.68 a barrel at 0500 GMT, up $1.47 in the Globex electronic session. April Brent crude on London’s ICE Futures exchange rose $1.73 to $31.79 a barrel. Prices touched a low of $26.05 a barrel a day ago, the…