London — The dollar climbed to a 29-month high on Tuesday as a blizzard of soft global data left the US economy as the only one still looking reasonably healthy.

European stocks and the euro both suffered shaky mornings, after eurozone manufacturing data showed the sharpest contraction in almost seven years...

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