Stock benchmarks in Asia fall
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MUMBAI: Japan&#39;s Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell for the first day in four after brokerages cut their ratings on the companies, citing concern that earnings growth may slow.
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Japanese stocks dropped, with benchmarks poised for their biggest slides in six months. Exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp. led decline after the dollar plunged to its lowest against
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Asian stocks slid on Monday on gloomy U.S. jobs data, bleak earnings prospects at tech firms and high oil prices, while the Australian dollar hit a six-month peak after the coalition government was swept back to power.
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Major Asian stock markets fell as much as 8 percent as panicky investors feared a U.S. recession could derail global economic growth, and a sharp drop in U.S. stock index futures pointed to heavy selling in New York later on Tuesday.
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Asian shares fell on Tuesday as a soft dollar and concerns about weak holiday spending in the key U.S. market prompted investors to unload shares in exporters such as Samsung Electronics  and Honda
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NEW YORK  -Stocks fell on Thursday, with the benchmark S&P 500 plummeting to a 15-month low, as news of a plunge in regional factory activity and a hefty loss at Merrill Lynch further clouded an increasingly dire view of the economy.
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Asian stock markets closed lower on Tuesday, as concerns over the outlook for the US ahead of a slew of bank earnings and trumped initial technology-driven gains on better-than-expected results from companies including IBM, Samsung and LG Philips.
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Asian shares were mostly lower on  Tuesday, pulled down by technology stocks following worries  about a sales forecast from bellwether Intel Corp. and  unexpectedly flat industrial output in Japan.
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TOKYO -- Asian stocks plunged Wednesday and European shares opened sharply lower after Wall Street chalked its second-biggest point drop in four years and rattled already nervous markets worldwide.
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Asian stocks slid on Monday on gloomy  U.S. jobs data, bleak earnings prospects at tech firms and high  oil prices, while the Australian dollar hit a six-month peak  after the coalition government was swept back to power.
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Asian stocks fell on Friday as news of the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and fears over regional political turmoil triggered a flight to less risky assets such as bonds and gold.
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Asian shares fall sharply in Wednesday trading due to renewed fears about the health of the US economy.
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Sharp falls in technology stocks led  Asian share markets lower Friday on bleak earnings prospects at  industry leader Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and a retreat on  Wall Street.
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Share prices in Japan and South Korea fall again, a day after global stocks tumbled amid fears of a recession.
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By Michael Tsang  Asia's emerging stock markets failed to keep pace with a global rally over the past three months, and slowing U.S. economic growth may prevent them from catching up.
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Asian stocks tumbled anew on Friday  after the latest salvo of sour signals about the U.S. economy  pummeled Wall Street, sending the benchmark S&P 500 (.SPX)  sprawling 3 percent lower to a 15-month nadir.
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Asian and European stock markets headed down again Wednesday after a broad global sell-off the day before that included a more than 3 percent drop in the Dow Jones industrial average and the loss worldwide of an estimated trillion dollars in equity.