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Worldwide worry

Markets tumble amid doubts on US stability

Electronic display boards in London (above) and New York told the tale as panic selling battered stock markets around the world yesterday. Electronic display boards in London (above) and New York told the tale as panic selling battered stock markets around the world yesterday. (AP Photo)
By Robert Gavin
Globe Staff / October 7, 2008

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Waves of panic selling swamped stock markets around the world yesterday as a spreading crisis in confidence battered investors from Tokyo to Brazil and intensified concerns over a potential global recession. (Full article: 991 words)

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