Eurozone stocks slip as EU leaders meet

Eurozone stock markets slid on Friday as investors' attention shifted to an EU summit over relations with the ex-Soviet states and the Greek crisis as well as US inflation data. In foreign exchange trading on Friday, the euro dropped to $1.1035 from $1.1112 late in New York on Thursday, after US core inflation came in higher than expected and thus raised chances of a rise to interest rates. The US Labor Department reported that US consumer prices edged 0.1 percent higher in April as energy