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Urgent: Oil prices fall as U.S. dollar strengthens

Xinhua, May 20, 2015 Adjust font size:

Oil prices continued to fall Tuesday as the stronger U.S. dollar weighed on the crude market.

Light, sweet crude for June delivery lost 2.17 U.S. dollars to settle at 57.26 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while Brent crude for July delivery moved down 2.25 dollars to close at 64.02 dollars a barrel. Endite