NEW YORK: Most of the world’s main stock markets ran into profit-taking on Wednesday, prompted by weak economic data, lower oil prices and a sliding dollar.

Data showed French industrial output fell 0.8 percent in June, alarming analysts who had been looking for a modest increase in production from Europe’s second-biggest economy.

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