LONDON / AP Global stock markets were trading lower on Monday after finance ministers from the world’s major economies dropped a pledge to oppose trade protectionism from a weekend statement due to resistance by the Trump administration. In Europe, France’s CAC-40 fell 0.3 percent to 5,015 while Britain’s FTSE 100 declined 0.1 percent to 7,417. Germany’s DAX declined 0.3 ...

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