MARKET WATCH: Energy prices continue to slide as economics slump

Energy prices continued their downhill slide Aug. 1 even as doubtful US Representatives worked to pass a compromise $2.4 trillion debt-ceiling increase that evening with the US Senate likely to give its equally unenthusiastic approval today to the bill that will cut spending by $2.1 trillion over 10 years.

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