Roundup: Oil prices plunge / US construction jobs / Series has Baton Rouge ties By Deanna B. Narveson - March 6, 2020 FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailPrint Downward slide: Oil benchmark prices per barrel plunged more than 10% to multiyear lows today as OPEC’s allies rejected additional production cuts that the organization proposed Thursday, CNBC repor… Already an INSIDER? Sign in.