Stocks scale records, oil dips as investors hail easing of Mideast tensions
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Crude oil prices slid and equity markets around the world set new highs on Thursday as investors took on greater risk in a relief rally after the United States and Iran moved to defuse escalating tensions in the Middle East.Gold prices retreated further from a near seven-year peak scaled after Iran's missile strike on military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq early on Wednesday. The attack came in response to last week's U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general..