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• Asian stocks soar after Wall Street rally
Stocks across Asia have surged this week after plunging last week amid growing worries that the financial crisis would pull the global economy into recession, weakening demand for exports. While those concerns still linger, investors were encouraged ...
• Wall Street explodes in historic one-day surge
Investors in Asia and Europe also grabbed stocks after last week's rout and the weekend moves by governments to bolster investor confidence. In Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index surged 10.2 percent. Markets in Japan were closed for a holiday. In ...
• Administration looks to expand financial rescue
... one-day mark of 499 points, set in the waning days of the dot-com boom in 2000. But the surge came after the staggering losses of the worst week ever, and economists said more rough days can be expected. European markets rallied following Asia’s ...
• World markets follow huge Wall Street losses
The sluggishness in the credit markets that triggered much of the heavy selling in markets around the world since mid-September appeared little changed even after a string of interest rate cuts by central banks in the United States, Europe and Asia ...
• Maldives gears up for first democratic election
MALE, Maldives - To supporters, President Mamoun Abdul Gayoom is a hero who turned a poor nation of fishermen into a tourist paradise and the economic success story of South Asia. Detractors accuse him of ruling the Maldives as a dictator, violently ...