Light crude oil closed down $6.59 at $114.59 a barrel after surging more than $5 on Thursday.
According to one oft-cited measurement, China's police has recorded the annual number of "mass incidents" (over one hundred people) surging more than eight-fold between 1993 and 2004, to 74,000 that year.
From June 2008 until Friday, consumer discretionary and technology stocks have been the top two gainers, surging more than 32 percent and 19 percent, while financial stocks have declined the most, falling more than 40 percent.
As Argentina's economic growth slows, it is finding in Iran a robust client for its agricultural commodities, with trade volumes between the two nations surging more than 200 percent over the last five years to more than $1.2 billion.
After surging more than 36 percent last year, shares of the company — the seller of brands like Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Tanqueray — traded at a frothy P/E ratio of 38 as the year began, based on projected 2013 earnings.
Last week, Random House reported that 2012 was its best year on record with operating profits up 75% and revenues surging more than 20%, thanks to the global success of EL James's Fifty Shades trilogy.
