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SINGAPORE: Oil fell added in Asian barter Monday as worries about appeal advised on investors still abashed by anemic bread-and-butter abstracts from the US and China, analysts said.

Brent North Sea awkward for July afford 74 cents to $97.69, and New York's capital contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) awkward for July, fell 78 cents to $82.45, a amount aftermost apparent in October.

Both affairs had bankrupt lower Friday in acknowledgment to anemic US jobs data.

Brent oil prices had already angled by 15 percent during May, while WTI burst by about 18 percent.

"Energy markets accept suffered the amateur anathema of anemic bread-and-butter advance (US, China and Europe)," said Justin Harper, bazaar architect at IG Markets Singapore in a note.

Depressed purchasing administrator surveys for May in India, China, the United States, eurozone nations and added countries all spelled slower bread-and-butter advance globally, demography the air out of accepted oil and fuels demand.

On top of that came Friday's absolution of the US account application address for May, which showed a aciculate abatement in job creation.

The US abridgement added aloof 69,000 jobs in May, beneath than bisected of what was expected, with the unemployment amount ascent to 8.2 percent.

Household assets and spending abstracts appear aftermost anniversary additionally showed Americans -- the world's top oil consumers -- borer added into their savings, a acceptable arresting of added ache on spending increases.