Crude Prices Sink as Traders Bet on More Iranian Oil

August WTI crude oil futures kept falling sharply during the week ending June 26. Traders continued to take out the extra price they had added earlier because they worried about possible supply problems in the Middle East. The contract moved between a high of $78.14 and a low of $68.90 before finishing at $71.53. That was down $3.99, or 5.28 percent, from the week before. The selling went on for most of the week. Traders stopped focusing as much on the chance of oil supplies getting cut off in t