RTE:Oil prices see slight falls after US jobs figures
Benchmark crude was down 50 cents at $90.90 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $4.27 on Friday to settle at $91.40 in New York.
In London, Brent crude was down 24 cents at $108.70 on the ICE Futures exchange.
The Labor Department said on Friday that US employers added 163,000 jobs in July, the most since February.
The stronger jobs growth boosted investor optimism that the US economy is improving and helped fuel a stock market rally on Friday that continued in Asia today.
Crude has jumped from $77 in June as fears of a global recession faded. But some analysts expect global oil supplies will likely recover from a spate of recent outages and push prices lower.
