By Michael Kitchen
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- U.S. benchmark crude-oil futures rose in Asian trading hours Monday to recoup almost all of their losses in the Friday session on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Nymex crude for September delivery CLU2 +0.11% rose 0.5% or 46 cents to $93.33 a barrel in electronic trade after falling 0.5% Friday following a warning from the International Energy Agency that global crude demand could suffer from sluggish economic growth. Also Monday, September natural-gas futures NGU2 -0.72% fell 2 cents or 0.8% to $2.75 per million British thermal units, while September gasoline RBU2 +0.33% tracked crude higher to gain 2 cents or 0.6% to $3.02 a gallon.
