Markets
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Stocks fall on Japan crisis, weak economic reportsMar 15, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Worsening fears about the nuclear crisis in Japan shook financial markets Wednesday. Stocks opened lower then dropped sharply in midmorning trading after the...
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Oil prices rise with international tensionsMar 15, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Oil prices rebounded Wednesday as traders tried to gauge the impact that numerous international crises will have on world energy demand. Benchmark crude for ...
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Dollar touches below 80 yen, near postwar lowMar 15, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — The dollar dropped to its lowest point in almost 16 years Wednesday — briefly touching below 80 yen — amid a perilous nuclear crisis in Japan, debt woes in E...
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Nikkei slides 11 percent on radiation fearsMar 14, 2011 11:00 pm - LONDON — Japan's stock market nose-dived nearly 11 percent, leading world markets sharply lower on Tuesday, as an escalating nuclear crisis threatened to compound the de...
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Oil prices fall to lowest level in weeksMar 14, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Energy prices tumbled Tuesday as investors flocked to the U.S. dollar as a haven in the wake of the growing nuclear crisis in Japan. Analysts think oil price...
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Fears of a slowdown in Japan push stocks lowerMar 14, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Concerns over the economic impact of the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the world's third-largest economy, led to a broad sell-off in the stock mark...
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Fears of a slowdown in Japan push stocks lowerMar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Concerns over the economic impact of the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the world's third-largest economy, led to a broad sell-off in the stock mar...
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Oil settles higher; Japan may boost fuel importsMar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — The earthquake and tsunami in Japan took some steam out of the rally in oil prices by reducing the country's oil imports. That won't last long. Japan consume...
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Oil sinks below $100 after massive Japan quakeMar 10, 2011 10:00 pm - Oil prices fell sharply to below $100 a barrel Friday after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, the world's third-largest oil consumer, triggering knee-jerk s...
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Stock futures drop on Japan quake, oil below $100Mar 10, 2011 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — Stock futures are falling as investors try to assess the economic fallout from the largest earthquake in Japan's history. The quake struck toward the end of t...