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Oil prices tumble below US$40 a barrel on dour economic news+ }% M- s0 X8 ^+ J
Mon Dec 22, 4:00 PM. `( p: ~3 f; p. K& x4 n) X
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Oil prices tumbled below US$40 a barrel Monday as reports from manufacturers like Toyota and Caterpillar pointed to a worsening global economic climate and serious deterioration in energy demand.# `2 T7 L3 ^: S
& \) ~6 E' A: P, H6 FLight, sweet crude for February delivery fell $2.45, or nearly six per cent, to settle at $39.91 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude prices have tumbled 70 per cent since peaking above $147 in July.
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