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Urgent: Oil prices plunge as IMF lowers growth forecast

Xinhua, January 21, 2015 Adjust font size:

Oil prices fell Tuesday as the International Monetary Fund cut its global growth outlook.

Light, sweet crude for February delivery plummeted 2.3 U.S. dollars to settle at 46.39 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Endite