U.S. Oil Prices Fall to Six-Year Low
Story by The Wall Street Journal U.S. oil prices fell to a new six-year low Thursday as a combination of worries about global economic growth to a strengthening dollar, increasing crude supplies and a major U.S. refinery outage weighed on the market. Light sweet crude for September delivery fell $1.07, or 2.5%, to $42.23 a barrel, slipping below the low