Battered stock markets get breathing room, but fear contagion
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Global investors will be watching nervously for signs of contagion from the US housing meltdown and a credit squeeze in coming days, even after a broad stock markets rebound over the past week from recent turbulence.
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World stocks nosedived and demand for safe-haven bonds and currencies soared on Monday as fears gripped investors that a deteriorating U.S. economy would drag others down with it.
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Global stock markets suffered a fresh bout of turbulence on Monday as concerns about a slowdown in the US economy and the fallout from the credit squeeze continued to unnerve investors.
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When stock markets fall, one of the biggest triggers of panic for private investors is the thought that their retirement savings are being chipped away before their eyes.
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With Wall Street falling precipitously almost by the day, investors are asking what it will take to revive it. Market experts are increasingly coming to the same answer: Time.
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Investors looking for safety from declines in the mortgage and corporate bond markets may find it in the path of a hurricane.
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Growing fears of a US recession and increased worries about the outlook for the financial sector triggered a rout in Asian and European equity markets on Monday. Many indices suffered their biggest one-day declines since September 2001.
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China's stock plunge and Greenspan's gloomy words helped spook investors. But opinions on the economy's future are divided
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Two scary things can destroy the value of your portfolio.
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For all the anxiety this week about what Wall Street would do once investors saw the latest economic indicators, there was little excitement in the markets.
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The Federal Reserve tried to soothe Wall Streetâs nerves Wednesday, but a fund manager frayed them by warning that two pillars of the financial markets might crumble.
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After-hours news can have a big effect on a stock's price the next morning.
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U.S. investors, spooked early on Thursday by fears that China's first interest rate hike in nearly a decade would cool the country's booming economy, recovered their nerve in midday trading on the view that any threat to American manufacturers would be short-lived.
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A dizzying somersault on the markets left Wall Street traders and everyday investors biting their nails, and wondering  what lies ahead.
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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 could still escape a full-blown bear market, but it is not looking likely now.
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Business & money: Wall Street threatened by crumbling housing market.