Dip in crude oil prices sends equities lower


KUALA LUMPUR: A decline in crude oil prices overnight gave the cue for the domestic stock market to take profit from recent gains.

The rapid rise in commodity prices has been keeping local blue-chips on the advance, even as the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war applies pressure in the US and global markets.

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