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Axa Asia Pacific was the hardest hit, falling 35c - or 8.5 per cent â-o $3.75 after rejecting a bid by French parent Axa SA, which had offered $4.
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Surging oil prices and a weak dollar prompted a spate of profit-taking today, pushing stocks slightly lower in light holiday-week trading.
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U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday, led by financial shares, as a rush by savers to pull deposits from a large British mortgage lender fueled concerns that turmoil in the credit markets would spread.
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Wall Street was near its lows Tuesday afternoon, with the Dow down over 300 points.
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Leading shares closed near day's lows in mid-afternoon trade Friday after much weaker than expected US non-farm payroll data dragged the Dow nearly 200 points lower in morning deals.
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Stocks fell on Friday, sending the Nasdaq down more than 1 percent, as investors worried that equities could see more downside as the appetite for riskier assets diminishes further following this week's sell-off.
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U.S. stocks ended lower on Thursday after a volatile trading session as investors continued to snap up safer assets like bonds, following Tuesday's global equities sell-off.
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Stocks edged lower on Monday as  interest rates and a weakening dollar took center stage now  that the presidential election is over and investors took  profits after last week's rally.
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UK leading shares closed weaker, albeit off day lows after a negative trading session.
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Leading shares closed weaker, albeit off lows, with Wall Street mixed as it recovered, after an initial drop on falling durable goods orders, with a Northern Rock profit warning initiating a UK banking sector slump.
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Stocks moved lower on Thursday as a  brokerage downgrade on the oil sector, including Exxon Mobil  Corp. XOM.N, weighed on the market.
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Leading shares closed weaker, albeit off session lows, as Wall Street remained weak amid continued investor concerns over fresh highs in crude oil prices, with construction materials firm RMC shining out from the gloom after agreeing to a 2 billion pound takeover, dealers said.
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Financial stocks dragged London's FTSE 100 back below the 6,000 level on Tuesday   after US service sector data intensified fears of US recession.
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U.S. stocks edged lower on Friday   after a four-day rally as investors were weary of placing bets   as the Dow traded near a record high and Wall Street headed for   its best third quarter in nine years.
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Wall Street stocks were weaker at midmorning on Friday after disappointing earnings from Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) and renewed jitters over US mortgage and credit markets.
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Stocks fell on Thursday, led lower by tech shares as investors worried about the impact of a slowing economy on the outlook for profits.
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U.S. stocks declined on Thursday, pushed down by declines in banking shares after Britain's HSBC  warned that bad debts from its U.S. mortgage lending business would hurt results.