03-08-2015 23:33 via news.yahoo.com

Oil, stocks off on weak data; Europe shares up

By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell and oil futures prices sank to a six-month low on Monday on demand concerns after factory data from China and the United States disappointed. Brent slumped to its lowest since late January as factory activity in China, the world's second-biggest economy, shrank more than initially estimated last month. The resource-linked Canadian dollar was at its weakest in more than a decade against its U.S. peer as crude prices fell.
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