US stocks sink on prospect of higher rates


  • Business
  • Thursday, 10 Mar 2005

NEW YORK (AP) - Volatile oil prices and a weak dollar sent stocks plunging Wednesday as the prospect of inflation and rising interest rates sank in on Wall Street.  

Yields on long-dated Treasuries surged to an eight-month high and the Dow Jones industrial average skidded 107 points. 

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