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Commodities mostly drop on soaring dollar, China woes

Published Sun, Mar 15, 2015 · 09:50 PM

London

MANY commodities fell last week as the dollar struck a 12-year peak against the euro, with sentiment hit also by weak data in key consumer China.

The European single currency sank on Friday to US$1.0466 - the lowest level since January 2003 - on expectations of a US rate hike later this year.

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