NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks plunged yet again on Thursday, as a frantic flight from risk on investors' deepening economic fears left the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index at its lowest level since 1997 -- completing the erasure of more than a ...
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Dubai: Soothsaying based on Amlak's announcement that it has suspended writing new mortgage loans is guaranteed to become a major Dubai pastime, especially because it comes on the heels of two other worrisome events: Emaar announced that it is ...
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Reporting from New York - The stock market plunged for a second day today, sending a broad benchmark index to an 11-year low, as investors endured another clutch of depressing economic news and anxiety over the fate of U.S. automakers. The Dow Jones ...
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The economic downturn could cause a 26% rise in mental health problems, affecting more than 1.5 million people in the UK, Conservatives have claimed. Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley urged the Government to take action to prevent what he said ...
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MIAMI, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Like many other elderly Americans, Edie Stark has been hard hit by the meltdown in U.S. financial markets. She is 84 and has been worried a lot lately about outliving her savings. A retired nurse, Stark is a prime example of ...
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Argentina will go into the Davis Cup final as favourites to win the trophy for the first time in the absence of Rafael Nadal for Spain. The world number one’s season ended with a knee injury two weeks ago. Juan Martin del Potro, David Nalbandian ...
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Shareholders in Royal Bank of Scotland voted almost unanimously to accept the Government's £20 billion bailout package yesterday. However, any anger that existed was directed more towards the Treasury than at the bank's board. Rage that small ...
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