Oil slips on dollar strength, still set for monthly gain

Brent crude oil futures were trading at $48 per barrel at 0829 GMT, down 37 cents from the previous close, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were down 21 cents at $46.14. Oil prices had rallied by more than 20 percent from the beginning of August on hopes that producers were reviving talks on a possible output freeze, setting prices on course for their largest monthly gains since April. "The market is getting tired of those headlines," Olivier Jakob, managing director of Swi