Visitors view platform models at an oil and petroleum exploration exhibition in Beijing yesterday. World oil prices have dropped as investors fretted over the strength of worldwide energy demand following weak Chinese economic data. Traders reacted to news that China had recorded its largest trade deficit in more than 10 years.

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