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• World markets soar after last week's rout
In a volatile session Friday in New York, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 128, or 1.49 percent, to 8,451.49, gyrating within a 1,000 point range. The average had its worst week on record in both point and percentage terms. Financials helped ...
• Plan pushed for government to buy bank stocks
Jittery investors awaited the reopening of stock markets — the Dow Jones industrial average just completed its worst week ever, plummeting more than 18 percent — and hoped for bold, coordinated international steps to address the crisis. At a Paris ...
• IMF chief warns of global financial meltdown
Bush huddled with economic chiefs from the G-7 — Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada — and officials from the IMF and World Bank, and said top industrial nations grasped the gravity of the crisis and would work together to solve it ...
• High anxiety still rules on Wall Street
At Friday's closing bell, both the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 were down 18.2 percent for the week, while the Nasdaq Composite Index was down 15.3 percent. Since the beginning of October alone, all three major indexes have skidded ...
• After scandal, China tightens dairy regulations
Contaminated milk powder, laced with the industrial chemical melamine, has been blamed for causing the deaths of four infants and sickening more than 54,000 others. More than 10,000 children remained hospitalized with eight of them in serious ...