Strong dollar weighs down oil

Weighing on prices: a stronger US dollar caused oil prices to slip on Tuesday

Oil prices slipped on Tuesday on a stronger US dollar, continuing uncertainty about the resolution of the euro zone's debt crisis and the collapse of MF Global Holdings.

The US-based futures brokerage MF Global filed for bankruptcy protection following bad bets on euro zone debt. Its meltdown in less than a week made it the biggest US casualty of Europe's debt crisis and the seventh-largest bankruptcy by assets in US history.

"As cooler heads prevail and look around and actually start analysing the euro zone situation, they realise we still got a ways to go," said Tony Nunan, a risk manager with Tokyo-based Mitsubishi.

"We are going to drift lower based on a correction from the euphoria from the EU summit…

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