Oil prices fell to near $82 a barrel Thursday in Asia, paring two days of gains that were fueled by signs U.S. crude demand may be improving. Benchmark crude for April delivery was down 75 cents to $82.18 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.23 to settle at $82.93 on Wednesday. Oil had risen more than $3 the previous two days, helped higher by a larger-than-expected drop in gasoline and distillates inventories last week and a smaller-than-expected increase in crude supplies, according to Energy Information Agency data released Wednesday.
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