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• Bush: World powers will attack crisis together
Oct. 10: Finance ministers from around the world have gathered in Washington to confront the massive financial crisis that's gripping the globe. NBC's David Gregory reports. WASHINGTON - The world's wealthiest industrial countries will work together ...
• 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 ...
• Is this officially a crash?
It defines a recession as "a significant decline in activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, visible in industrial production, employment, real income, and wholesale-retail trade." A depression is a more severe downturn that ...
• Why 'circuit breakers' haven't been triggered
The Dow Jones industrial average would have to fall 1,100 points in a day to trigger the first halt. If that point is reached before 2 p.m., the market would shut down for an hour. If the threshold is breached between 2 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., the halt ...
• Bush: ‘We can solve this crisis and we will’
Market turbulence has increased this week with the Dow Jones industrial average suffering a series of huge declines that have wiped out $8.7 trillion in wealth over the past year. The president's working group, which was created after the 1987 stock ...