HONG KONG: Oil prices on Tuesday extended their heavy losses from the previous session, hitting Asia’s beleaguered energy stocks as most regional markets retreated from a recent rally.

Weak factory data in China and the United States added to the selling pressure, although Shanghai rallied on hopes of fresh economy-priming measures from Beijing and after the central bank pumped billions of dollars into financial markets.

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