HONG KONG: Oil prices closed in on the $100 a barrel mark on Monday as traders grew increasingly worried about unrest in Egypt, while stock markets in Asia mostly fell.

Share prices partly lost ground because of last week’s sharp falls on Wall Street—the result both of instability in Egypt and poor corporate results.

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