NEW YORK: Oil prices tumbled 3 percent on Thursday as a resurgent dollar erased gains from the past two sessions, setting the market up for its first weekly loss in five.
The dollar, on a downtrend since the start of May, jumped on optimism that Friday's U.S. employment report for April would show strength after upbeat weekly jobless claims.
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