Hong Kong tensions unnerve world stock markets, oil tumbles
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NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices tumbled and global equity markets wavered on Friday as China's move to impose a new security law on Hong Kong further strained U.S.-Sino relations and clouded economic recovery prospects.News that China also dropped its annual growth target for the first time added to uncertainty about fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, boosting safe-haven investments such as U.S. Treasuries and the dollar.China said it would impose new national security legislation on..