Crude sell-off steepens as dollar strengthens:
"Brent crude, the global oil marker, fell 3.5 per cent to $53.79, while West Texas Intermediate, the US oil benchmark, dropped 4 per cent to $50.83 a barrel — extending their earlier declines.
The move came as the DXY dollar index, a gauge of the greenback against a basket of peers, jumped 0.8 per cent — after the Federal Reserve lifted interest rates for the first time in a year and signalled more interest rate rises next year than previously thought.
Strength in the dollar, the currency in which oil is denominated, makes it more expensive to foreign buyers."
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