Shares have dropped 4% this month, capping their worst first-half performance in three years, as investors await new products and fret that rivalry from Google will slow growth
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Shares have dropped 4% this month, capping their worst first-half performance in three years, as investors await new products and fret that rivalry from Google will slow growth
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Japan’s industrial production rose at the fastest pace in more than 50 years, led by carmakers as they restored operations at plants after a record earthquake and tsunami on March 11.
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European stocks fell for an eighth week, the longest stretch of losses since 1998, as concern grew that Greece will default and the Federal Reserve cut its growth forecast for the world’s largest economy.
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European stocks fell, completing the longest streak of weekly losses since 1998, as a drop in banking shares amid concern the region’s debt crisis will worsen overshadowed a rebound in mining shares and carmakers.
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U.S. stocks rose for the first time in seven weeks, preventing the longest losing streaks for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average since 2001, as concern about the American economy ebbed even as the Greek debt crisis deepened.
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The benchmark indexes for U.S. and European stock options climbed to the highest levels since March on concern that the Europe’s debt crisis is worsening and that regulators will require large banks to increase reserves.
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Asian stocks fell, with the region’s key benchmark index on course for its lowest close since in almost three months, on concern that debt-ridden Greece will default and as reports showed the U.S. economy is cooling.
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