Crude oil futures were largely steady during mid-morning trade in Asia Tuesday amid mixed signals on demand-supply fundamentals. At 10:35 am in Singapore (0235 GMT), ICE Brent December futures were down 2 cents/b (0.03%) from Monday’s settle at $58.94/b, while the NYMEX November light sweet crude futures contract was 3 cents/b (0.06%) higher at $53.34/b. Analysts surveyed Monday by S&P Global Platts were expecting upcoming weekly data on US crude inventories to show a 4.7 million-barrel build in the week ended October 18, continuing an uptrend seen since early September as refiners have gone into fall maintenance. The analysts were on average looking for US gasoline stocks to have fallen by 2 million barrels in the week and distillate stocks to have fallen by 3 million barrels. Preliminary weekly US crude data is due for release by the American Petroleum Institute later Tuesday and more definitive numbers […]