Oil's biggest day yet drags down stocks - Yahoo! News

Courtesy Newsvine - business  Sat, 06/07/2008 - 05:05

NEW YORK - Oil prices made their biggest single-day leap ever Friday, dragging the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 400 points and raising the once-unthinkable prospect of $150 oil and more record gas prices by the Fourth of July.

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