The price of oil eased to below $89 a barrel on Tuesday as expectations of rising crude supplies pulled attention away from the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for December delivery was down 50 cents to $88.78 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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