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Stocks fall on global growth concerns, dollar slips
Fawad Maqsood
18 Dec, 2015
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Copyright Reuters, 2015
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![](https://i.brecorder.com/images/2015/12/us-stock2-dec.jpg">NEW YORK: Global equity markets fell on Friday, pulled lower by concerns about slumping crude oil prices and whether they signal slower growth, while the dollar slipped against the yen on views the Bank of Japan may not ease policy as much as expected.</P><P>Equity investors were cautious in the wake of the euphoria that followed the U.S. Federal Reserve's first interest rate hike in almost a decade earlier in the week. But trading in crude oil and the bond market was volatile.</P><P>The yen gained after the BoJ merely tweaked its monthly asset-purchase program. The move put a pause in the dollar, which rose in recent months on views that the Fed's likely decision to raise rates and the BoJ's path of more potential stimulus would drive investment into higher-yielding U.S. assets.</P><P>)
