New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- NEW YORK - For oil traders who spent two weeks pricing an unresolvable conflict, Trump's weekend comment that he would be willing to meet Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian did what the strikes could not. It moved the market in the other direction, and faster than it had moved up.

Brent crude fell 2.12 percent to $101.67 a barrel in early Monday trading. WTI, the American benchmark, slipped 2.24 percent to $98.05, sliding below $100 for the first time in eleven days. Both contracts hit their lowest level since September 10.

The move came as the United Nations General Assembly opened in New York with Pezeshkian in attendance. Trump said on the weekend that options for ending the war included destroying Iran milita...