Commodity markets were clobbered and stocks and bonds were also in the firing line on Monday as expectations for a first increase in U.S. interest rates next month in almost a decade pushed the dollar to a seven-month high. Oil fell more than 3 percent and industrial metals copper and nickel plunged, while the euro sagged to a seven-month low as the prospect of more policy easing by the ECB in Europe was compounded by a security lockdown in Brussels. European stocks .FTEU3 were down 0.5 percent despite better-than-expected euro zone data as the slump in commodities and the unrelenting appreciation of the dollar dominated sentiment at the start of the week. Copper CMCU3 slumped to a fresh six-and-a-half year low and nickel CMNI3 tumbled 4 percent to its lowest since 2003 as […]