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Gloomy Forecast On Hedge Funds

LONDON, Oct. 24 -- The hedge fund industry, a once-unstoppable profit machine that has already lost more than $200 billion in value this year, could shrink by a quarter or more as the global financial crisis deepens, according to industry analysts and fund managers.

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25.10.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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Recession Fears Drive Down Global Markets

TOKYO, Oct. 24 -- A recession-driven wave of selling gutted Asian and European markets Friday, with tumbling corporate profit reports and poor economic news from the United Kingdom pushing major exchanges to near double-digit percentage losses.

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25.10.2008 00:05:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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GM Halts Some Benefits, Plans to Trim More Jobs

General Motors is suspending a variety of benefit programs for its white-collar workers and slashing additional jobs to cut costs -- a move that comes as employers nationwide begin to re-evaluate the cost of retirement and health-care packages in an effort to ride out the economic downturn.

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24.10.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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Thailand Escapes Financial Meltdown

BANGKOK, Oct. 23 -- Thailand has escaped the global financial panic with only minor immediate damage, in part because of an ethic of financial caution that it learned in the 1997 financial crisis, which almost stopped its economy.

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24.10.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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Deflated by Oil Price's Dive

The world's petro-powers -- the oil-exporting nations armed with vast, high-priced crude reserves -- are looking a little less imposing now that prices are tumbling.

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24.10.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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AIG Has Used Much of Its $123 Billion Bailout Loan

The troubled insurance giant American International Group already has consumed three-quarters of a federal $123 billion rescue loan, a little more than a month after the government stepped in to save the company from bankruptcy.

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24.10.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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IMF Plans Aid for Emerging Economies

Alarmed by a fast-ballooning crisis in emerging markets, the International Monetary Fund is close to creating an emergency program to rush hard currency to nations suddenly teetering on the verge of default, IMF sources said yesterday.

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24.10.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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Treasury To Invest In More Banks

The Treasury Department will announce as soon as today that a group of large regional banks have agreed to accept investments from the government, industry sources said. The new banks would join nine of the largest American banks, including Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase, which were forced to...

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24.10.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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Credit Crisis May Force Metro to Pay Millions

Metro and 30 other transit agencies across the country may have to pay billions of dollars to large banks as years-old financing deals unravel, potentially hurting service for millions of bus and train riders, transit officials said yesterday.

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24.10.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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Treasury Considers Backing Mortgages

The federal government may start guaranteeing home mortgages to persuade lenders to ease the monthly financial burden on struggling homeowners, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila C. Bair said yesterday.

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24.10.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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Gloomy Forecast On Hedge Funds

Recession Fears Drive Down Global Markets

GM Halts Some Benefits, Plans to Trim More Jobs

Thailand Escapes Financial Meltdown

Deflated by Oil Price's Dive

AIG Has Used Much of Its $123 Billion Bailout Loan

IMF Plans Aid for Emerging Economies

Treasury To Invest In More Banks

Credit Crisis May Force Metro to Pay Millions

Treasury Considers Backing Mortgages

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