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Terror, economy sink stocks
Terror, economy sink stocks
4:57pm:  Major indexes plummet after Bhutto's assassination stokes geopolitical concerns and economic reports show weakness in domestic markets.  (more)
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• Rate cuts will hammer dollar: Chinese official
A fresh blow for Pakistan
2:39pm: The assassination of Benazir Bhutto opens barely-healed wounds and leaves a nuclear power at the risk of civil war. (more)
Oil surges on geopolitical turmoil
3:16pm: Crude passes $96 after former Pakistan prime minister is assassinated and crude supplies fall again in the United States. (more)
Beware the dreaded R word
3:36am: You don't know whether we're in a recession until months after it starts. But Fortune's Allan Sloan says investing successfully requires looking forward, not backward. (more)
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