The ruble fell for a fifth day with oil, set for the worst streak of losses this year, as investors cut their holdings of riskier emerging-market assets on mounting speculation the U.S. will raise interest rates. The ruble weakened as much as 0.5 percent and traded down 0.1 percent at 66.8470 as of 5 p.m. in Moscow, a 3.2 percent decline in the past five days. Crude oil fell as much as 1.1 percent to $47.80 per barrel. A gauge of emerging-market currencies has retreated this month as the Federal Reserve positions itself to raise U.S. borrowing costs as soon as in June. Oil’s decline of 2.4 percent from a six-month high on May 17 amid a continued global supply glut has also helped pare the ruble’s second-best performance in emerging markets this year. “The market is jittery on renewed expectations of Fed rate hikes,” Vladimir Miklashevsky, a senior […]