Crude oil futures settled lower on Tuesday amid concerns about the outlook for energy demand due to renewed restrictions on movement in several countries amid rising new cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
Oil prices were also weighed down by a firm dollar amid increasing prospects of the Federal Reserve resorting to a faster pace of tapering of its asset-buying program following data showing an acceleration in U.S. producer price inflation.
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