Stocks in Asia tumble as U.S. dollar pushes further ahead

SYDNEY, NSW, Australia - Financial markets across the world continued in disarray Thursday with the U.S. dollar forging ahead, while stocks continued to crumble.

Following a rout on Wall Street, Asian markets tumbled.

"We're now very much embedded with at least two further hikes of 50 basis points on the agenda. For equity markets that really is the end of free money," Damian Rooney, director of institution