Oil prices settled with a gain of more than 3% Wednesday, their largest since November. The Energy Information Administration reported a bigger-than-expected drop of 5.2 million barrels in last week’s U.S. crude supplies. That was the biggest weekly decline of the year. Gasoline futures also rallied as weekly U.S. inventories of the fuel edged lower. June WTI crude rose $1.45, or 3.2%, to settle at $47.33 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. June gasoline added 5 cents, or 3.4%, to $1.540 a gallon.
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