Brent edges up off six-month low

Crude oil futures touched multi-month lows on Monday after a weekend of mixed data from China showing higher oil imports in July but weaker trade figures overall. China's crude oil imports rose by 4.1 percent in July from June, but this bullish news was partly offset by broader trade figures showing an 8.3 percent slump in exports, stoking fears that Chinese economic activity was slowing. Olivier Jakob, an oil analyst at Petromatrix in Switzerland, cited the fact that the supertanker Sea Ki