Crude oil futures dipped in mid-morning trade in Asia Dec. 24 as investors booked profits after a three-day bull run that pushed oil prices to highs not seen since late November. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now At 10 am Singapore time (0200 GMT), the ICE February Brent futures contract was down 25 cents/b (0.33%) from the previous close at $76.60/b. NYMEX was closed for the Christmas holidays, though the NYMEX February light sweet crude contract had settled at the end of the prior day Dec. 23 up $1.03/b (1.42%) on the day at $73.79/b. Easing concerns over the omicron variant saw oil prices adding around 7.5% in value over the last three days. Both benchmarks were now hovering at highs not seen since Nov. 26. A spate of bullish headlines this week indicating positive developments in the fight against COVID-19 was boosting […]