Oil Prices Drop Again

Crude futures fell again Tuesday in New York as traders declined to make upside bets ahead of the upcoming OPEC meeting.

The jury is still out as to whether the world's largest oil-exporting group will raise output or leave it unchanged, but after several days of speculation, the answer is now just a few hours away.

For the session, January light sweet crude fell 99 cents to $88.32 a barrel, and natural gas lost 6 cents to $7.16 per million British thermal units. Reformulated gasoline was fractionally higher at $2.25 a gallon, and heating oil was also slightly better at $2.51 a gallon. ...