Oil fell more than a dollar to below $44 on Thursday as a record drop in euro zone economic performance heightened expectations that fuel consumption would shrink further.

The dollar soared to a three-year high on Monday after a record loss for insurer AIG added to worries that the financial crisis is growing more severe and enhanced the U.S. currency’s safe-haven appeal.

Firm investment demand outweighs weak jewelery buying… Euro weakens on euro zone outlook… Oil prices tumble nearly 10 percent…

Firm U.S. dollar weighs on sentiment… Slips from 1-week high as oil prices ease…

Dollar firms a touch versus the euro, pressuring gold… Key U.S. jobs data shows payrolls down 524,000 in Dec…  Investec cuts 2009 platinum forecast by 28 percent.

Debt prices plummet, dollar gains… U.S. stocks fall on profit-taking but rise in Europe…  Dollar at 3-week high vs euro on hopes for stimulus plan… Oil gains as Gaza fighting raises Mideast supply worries.

US dollar falls against euro, currency basket… Pound hits 6-1/2-yr low vs dlr, near parity with euro… Swiss franc supported by Israel-Hamas conflict… Prices of US single-family homes plunge in October

MSCI world equity index down 0.2 percent at 224.77…  China cuts rates but gloomy Japan, euro zone data weighs… Dollar weakens; bonds rise

Dollar weakens to two-month low versus euro… Oil climbs nearly 7 percent; OPEC supply cut expected

Euro hits 6-wk high at $1.3158 , dollar index falls… ECB’s Stark comments cool rate cut expectations… SNB cuts rates by 50 bps, as expected… U.S. auto deal makes progress, rocky road seen in Senate