SINGAPORE: Oil prices fell in Asia on Friday after a sharp rise in US crude stockpiles and Saudi Arabia’s rejection of proposed output cuts shot down a rally by the battered commodity.

The about-turn came as the US Energy Department reported a 2.1 million barrel increase in US commercial crude inventories, to the highest in more than eight decades, as well as sizeable increases in gasoline and other refined products.

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