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Some homes worth less than their copper pipes (Jason Szep)
BROCKTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- Shards of broken glass outside the basement window of 31 Vine Street hint at the destruction inside the three-story home.
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Chaos on Wall Street (Allan Sloan)
The big banks' fear of big losses is threatening to bring down the entire system, with dire consequences for all of us. Here's what's going on, and what we can do about it.
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U.S. Stocks Rise in S&P 500's Best 2nd Quarter Start Since 1938 (Patterson & Stanton)
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. stock market posted its best start to a second quarter in 70 years after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and UBS AG said they are raising $19 billion to replenish ...
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Smallest Black Hole Found (Andrea Thompson)
(Space.com) -- NASA scientists have identified the smallest, lightest black hole yet found.
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Americans Delay Retirement As Housing, Stocks Swoon (Jenifer Levitz)
(Wall Street Journal) -- Nest Eggs Shrink, Deferring Dreams; 'Freaked Out' Elite
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Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking' (Geoffrey Lean)
(Independent) -- Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation.
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Commodities Tumble as U.S. Recession Risk Weighs on Oil, Copper (Grant Smith)
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Commodities fell for a third day, led by oil, copper and soybeans, on mounting concerns over the slowdown in the U.S. economy.
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Fed eyes Nordic-style nationalisation of US banks (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard)
(Telegraph) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve is examining the Nordic bank nationalisations of the 1990's as a possible interim solution to the U.S. financial crisis.
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Construction Spending in U.S. Fell 0.3% in February, Less Than Economists Expected (Bob Willis)
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Spending on U.S. building projects fell in February for a fifth consecutive month as the housing recession dragged on and construction of offices and utility plants declined.
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U.S. Manufacturing Contracted Less Than Forecast In March (Courtney Schlisserman)
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Manufacturing in the United States contracted less than forecast in March, benefiting from growing exports and easing concern slower consumer spending and business investment ...
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Banks Face Biggest Crisis in 30 Years, Report Shows (Edward Evans)
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Credit market turmoil poses the most severe crisis for banks in 30 years, surpassing Black Monday in 1987, the Asia currency crisis and the bursting of the dot-com bubble, ...
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