Oil prices fall in volatile trade
Oil prices fell on Monday in volatile trade, reversing some gains from the previous session as markets braced for new mass COVID testing in China potentially hitting demand, a worry that outweighed ongoing concerns about tight supply.
Brent crude futures fell $1.02, or 1%, to $106.00 at 0605 GMT, after climbing 2.3% on Friday, Reuters reported.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures declined by $1.38, or 1.3%, to $103.41, paring a 2% gain from Friday.
Trading was thinned by a public holiday in parts of Southeast Asia, including oil trading hub Singapore.
The market was rattled by news that China had discovered its first case of a highly transmissible Omicron subvariant in Shanghai and that new cases had jumped to 63 in the country's largest city from 52 a day earlier.