Holiday week a time to reassess geopolitical risks
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The coming week, with Tuesday's New Year's holiday limiting trading activity, will provide time for investors to reassess geopolitical risk levels in light of the turmoil in nuclear-armed Pakistan.
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When President Bush meets Iraq and  Afghanistan's leaders this week, his re-election campaign will  tout their countries as foreign policy successes but analysts  point to the political fragility of these men.
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The upsurge in Middle East violence and resulting spike in crude oil prices poses new risks to the US economy, which is already cooling from higher interest rates and other factors, experts say.
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This past week the headlines in the news fit together like the pieces of a puzzle. Each news story added another dimension to the emerging picture of war policy that is increasingly costly and incompetent.
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U.S. stocks could face a challenge  next week to bounce back from Friday's post-Thanksgiving drop  unless there's some tempering of the dollar's weakness that  sparked the sell-off.
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Data in the coming week are expected to reveal a more resilient industrial sector and a narrowing trade gap.
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Leaders of the G8 powers will call this week for greater vigilance on hedge funds in the hope that the industry will take it upon itself to prevent accidents like the collapse of LTCM in the late 1990s.
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Bad economic data? Rising oil prices? Mediocre earnings? It&#39;s the holiday season _ all is forgiven. Wall Street is going into the last week of 2004 with all three major indexes above or at their multiyear highs.
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Stocks could face a challenge this  week to bounce back from Friday's post-Thanksgiving drop unless  there is some tempering of the dollar's weakness that sparked  the sell off.
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Stock investors may want to fasten  their seatbelts this week, when a flurry of earnings and  economic data will once again be in focus.
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OTTUMWA, Iowa  - In the snowswept American heartland, discussion of foreign policy often boils down to one word: security.
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Options traders were on the defensive  on Friday as a bleak jobs report and a newly released video by  al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden just days before the  anniversary of the September 11 attacks prompted many to  reassess their portfolio risk ahead of the weekend.
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Security concerns dominate Bush's Latin American trip. The view from inside the bubble.
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Investors may pack up and leave next week as the Republican National Convention comes to New York and many on Wall Street take a vacation, draining US markets of volume
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LONDON, Oct. 7 -- It was a tough week for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the Middle East. On four issues pivotal to the future of the world's most volatile region, U.S. diplomatic efforts made no visible progress or came up against unexpected resistance during her five-day tour, according...
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Stock investors looking to recoup from the worst week in almost three months will have to keep one eye out for signs of weakness in the tidal wave of earnings due next week and the other on the threat surging oil prices pose to the economy and profits.
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Flying out for the holidays for a little relaxation and family time? Fine. But Uncle Sam hopes you'll remain vigilant, on the lookout for terrorists who also might be heading home to see their families in such places as Myrtle Beach, S.C., or Londonderry, N.H.