Global stocks climb, dollar dips ahead of Fed minutes

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks around the world gained for a second straight day on Wednesday, boosted by upbeat global economic data, as investors await minutes of the Federal Reserve's December meeting in which the U.S. central bank raised interest rates. The dollar retreated from a 14-year high against a basket of currencies and oil prices ticked higher on expectations that U.S. crude inventories are falling. The index was helped by a batch of rosy economic reports from Euro