Market sags on doubts about credit plan
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Stocks fell on Thursday as doubts grew about a plan by global central banks to unfreeze credit markets, sending financial shares lower.
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Higher oil prices weighed on investors and Treasuries rallied amid concerns about trouble among companies that offer loans to customers with spotty credit.
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Turmoil in credit and housing has obscured a rise in prices.
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Contrarian investors who think now is the time to start buying beaten-down banking stocks could be in for a shock if they don't carefully review those companies' distressed home-equity loan portfolios.
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And the market reaction looks a little screwy.
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Troubles with subprime mortgages cast a shadow over the stock market last week as investors worried about a potential growth in losses on loans to risky borrowers. Still, stocks managed to eke out small gains.
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Investors tried to determine whether a lackluster week presaged a departure from the marketâs months-long run-up or merely a temporary pause.
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Central banks signaled that rises in  interest rates were less certain than they had indicated just a  few weeks ago as weak U.S. housing data sent fresh shivers  through world markets.
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Individual investors are struggling to find a balanced approach at an unreliable time for the market.
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Stocks edged lower on Wednesday on disappointment about corporate financial results and uncertainty whether an expected Federal Reserve rate cut could head off a U.S. recession.
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Stocks fell on Tuesday as a brokerage's downgrades of investment banks and renewed credit concerns hit shares of financial companies, while data fueled doubts about the economy's outlook.
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Investors, frightened by the prospect of a new subprime mortgage crisis that could dwarf the write-downs of the last few months, sent markets lower.
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Stocks fell on Thursday as signs of   housing-market weakness and worries about the outlook for   interest rates made investors uneasy about prospects for   consumer spending and corporate profits.
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Stock futures fell on Friday, as credit concerns lingered, and with investors cautious ahead of a Federal Reserve interest rate decision next week.
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Reports of fresh damage from the teetering U.S. subprime mortgage sector provoked financial market wobbles on Tuesday as central banks around the world said their interest rate intentions had been thrown into doubt.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday on mounting concerns that credit market upheaval will erode bank profits and hold back consumer spending, but optimism about corporate investment helped lift technology shares.
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Wall Street looked set to fall on Wednesday as investors worldwide struggled to decide whether a surprise U.S. interest-rate cut the day before was a sign of salvation or of worse to come in troubled markets.