Oil falls as euro-area services and manufacturing contract

Oil Falls as Euro-Area Services, Manufacturing Output Contract

By Moming Zhou – Jun 5, 2012 2:30 PM GMT+0100

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-05/oil-falls-as-euro-area-services-manufacturing-output-contract.html

Oil fell as euro-area services and manufacturing output contracted at the fastest pace in almost three years in May.

Crude for July delivery slid 25 cents to $83.73 a barrel at 9:29 a.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices are 16 percent lower this year.

Brent oil for July settlement fell 42 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $98.43 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange.

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