By Sonali Paul and Muyu Xu MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Oil prices steadied on Thursday after falling for three days as the impact of renewed COVID curbs in China, the world’s biggest crude importer, weighed and traders await U.S. inflation data that may give direction on further interest rate increases. Brent crude futures fell 2 cents to $92.63 a barrel at 0534 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were down 8 cents at $85.75 a barrel. Brent prices have dropped more than 6% so far this week, while WTI is down more than 7%. The manufacturing hub of Guangzhou, a city of 19 million peop…