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Asian Stocks Plunge on US Slowdown Worries

By Jim O'Neill, Newser User

Posted Nov 12, 2007 7:02 AM CST

(Newser) – Renewed anxiety over the US sub-prime crisis and Friday's Wall Street slump ignited a stock dump in Asian markets today, hammering the Japanese Topix index to a two-year low and sending the dollar’s value against the yen to its lowest point in 18 months.... Read full story »

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