One Unrivaled Market Force: Vacation

Stocks calm down as bankers, investors bail for the beach

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 25, 2007 6:19 AM CDT

(Newser) – The FT leads with a prediction that market volatility will decrease over the next week for a simple reason: everyone's going on vacation. Major decisions by banks, hedge funds and mortgage lenders will be on hold as the financial world bails New York, London and... Read full story »

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