Tomorrow Press / Baghdad: Oil prices continued to fall in Asian trade on Friday, dragged down global stock markets and a sharp contraction in factory activity in China, while heading the American Brent crude to the longest weekly losses since 1986. The series record and saw Asian stocks, a decline in trading morning, as happened with US stocks in "Wall Street", and came with growing fears of a slowdown in global growth led by China. and heading measurement raw American to record the eighth weekly decline in a row in the longest losing streak since 1986. The NYMEX October delivery 42 dropped cents to $ 40.90 a barrel at 04:45 GMT. The September contract, which expired traded Thursday has closed higher 34 cents, during the previous session Hui American Brent crude to its lowest level in six and a half years at $ 40.21 a barrel. fell the international Brent crude contracts Brent 46 cents to $ 46.16 a barrel, after it ended the previous session low 54 cents. SOURCE