Crude oil prices sank to five-year low points on Dec. 1, dragging down the share prices of energy companies, while miners were hit by weak Chinese manufacturing data, traders said.
Agence France-Presse: Oil prices strike new lows, weighing on stocks
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (L) accompanied by Dmitry Pumpyansky, head of TMK, Russia's largest maker of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry, visits the Seversky Tube Works in the town of Polevskoy, outside Yekaterinburg, Urals, on Oct. 24.
