Wall Street slips as consumer stocks, oil drag
Oil prices had jumped on concerns that a huge wildfire in Canada's oil sands region and escalating tensions in Libya would hit supply, but later slipped well off their highs. "The fact that oil started off strong today and has weakened is probably a net negative for risk appetite in the near term," said Chris Konstantinos, head of international portfolio management at RiverFront Investment Group in Richmond, Virginia. Nonfarm payrolls likely rose by 202,000 last month, after rising 215,000 in Ma
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