Oil-price moves were muted Monday as clashes in the Middle East and Eastern Europe appeared to have a limited potential effect on supplies. Light, sweet crude for September delivery rose 43 cents, or 0.4%, to settle at $98.08 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The global Brent crude contract fell 34 cents, or 0.3%, to $104.68 a barrel on the ICE Futures Europe exchange. The market appeared to be stabilizing after a slide that has knocked about 8% off barrel prices in the U.S. and 9% globally since mid-June highs, with the U.S. benchmark touching a six-month low last week, said Gene McGillian, a broker at wholesale brokerage Tradition Energy. The market reached a crescendo then as traders speculated that violence in Iraq, Ukraine and Libya would interrupt global crude flows, but traders have since sold bullish positions to their lowest level since January after those disruptions […]