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Stocks slump…Oil prices drop… Lagarde favours adding yuan to IMF currency basket
– canadianbusiness.com
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Investors are licking their wounds after the stock market slumped to its second-biggest weekly loss of the year on Friday, breaking a streak of six consecutive weeks of gains. The Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 203 points, or 1.2 per cent. The S&P 500 gave up about 23 points, or 1.1 per cent. And the Nasdaq slipped 77 points, or 1.5 per cent.
Oil prices are dropping because demand can’t keep up with increasing supplies. Benchmark U.S. crude fell $1.01, or 2.4 per cent, to $40.74 a barrel Friday in New York. And Brent crude, the international benchmark, lost 45 cents, or 1 per cent, to $43.61 a barrel in London.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the International Monetary Fund says she supports adding China to an exclusive club of the world’s top currencies. Christine Lagarde says she supports findings by staff at the IMF that China’s currency, the yuan, meets the criteria for inclusion in the basket of currencies used in the fund’s operations…
Oil prices are dropping because demand can’t keep up with increasing supplies. Benchmark U.S. crude fell $1.01, or 2.4 per cent, to $40.74 a barrel Friday in New York. And Brent crude, the international benchmark, lost 45 cents, or 1 per cent, to $43.61 a barrel in London.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the International Monetary Fund says she supports adding China to an exclusive club of the world’s top currencies. Christine Lagarde says she supports findings by staff at the IMF that China’s currency, the yuan, meets the criteria for inclusion in the basket of currencies used in the fund’s operations…
