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Crude oil traded little changed in New York amid doubts a $780 billion stimulus plan in the U.S. will lead to a rapid recovery in global energy demand. Senate and Congress lawmakers due to vote on the plan today and tomorrow are more than “90 percent” agreed on its contents, Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, said yesterday. U.S. crude inventories have climbed in 17 of the past 19 weeks, leaving them 15 percent higher than the five-year average for the period, the Energy Department said. “Obviously a stimulus package would go a long way toward improving the demand outlook,” said Toby Hassall, an analyst at Commodity Warrants Australia Ltd. in Sydney. “But these things take time to filter through. While sentiment may be lifted just from the announcement, we’ve still got inventories rising.” Crude oil for March delivery was at $40.20 a barrel, up 3 cents, in after-hours electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 1:19 p.m. Singapore time. The contr