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Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday this week's sharp stock market drop had not changed the Fed's view that the U.S. economy was sound, remarks that helped shaken markets regain confidence.

FT.com - The FTSE 100 could not hold ground above the 6,200 mark on Wednesday, as Wall Street stocks edged higher in choppy trading. More Info...  

FT.com - Stock markets took another hit on Wednesday as European equities ended lower, after indices plunged overnight in Asia and the US. More Info...  

Reuters - The White House said on Wednesday the U.S. economy is fundamentally strong a day after stock markets around the world took a plunge.

FT.com - The FTSE 100 could not hold ground above the 6,200 mark in afternoon exchanges, as US indices stayed around the flatline in cautious trade. Mining stocks, banks and oil majors all fell. More Info...  

FT.com - The FTSE 100 moved off session lows in midday trade, as US indices made modest gains on Wall Street, but mining stocks, banks and oil majors all fell. More Info...  

AFP - Oil prices fell on Wednesday as most world stock markets sank for a second day on global economic concerns, traders said.

Reuters - China's main stock index opened lower on Wednesday but recovered quickly and moved into positive territory as heavily weighted financial blue chips climbed. More Info...  

AP - Stocks had their worst day of trading since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks Tuesday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down more than 400 points on a worldwide tide of concern that the U.S. and Chinese economies are stumbling and that share prices have become overinflated.

AP - Chinese stocks plunged nearly 9 percent Tuesday, their biggest drop in a decade, rattling markets from Hong Kong to Singapore and as far away as New York amid fears of a slowdown in China's economy.

AP - A computer glitch triggered a sudden plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average at mid-afternoon Tuesday, turning an already bad day in stocks into a head-turning spectacle. Dow Jones & Co., the media company that manages the well-known index of 30 blue chip stocks, said it discovered shortly before 2 p.m. that its computers weren't properly handling the day's huge volume in trades at the New York Stock Exchange.

FT.com - The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday suffered its steepest one-day decline in more than five years as hedge funds and other traders of large blocks of shares struggled to cope with curbs put in place by the New York Stock Exchange. Those curbs were designed to encourage orderly trading. More Info...  

Investor's Business Daily - The worst sell-off in a decade for Chinese stocks spilled across world markets Tuesday. More Info...  

AFP - The US dollar lost ground against other major world currencies including the euro on Tuesday as world stock markets fell heavily, amid fears over Chinese and US economic growth.

FT.com - Mining stocks bore the brunt of an aggressive sell-off that saw the FTSE 100 register its biggest one-day percentage fall since June last year. More Info...  

AFP - Wall Street shares went into a freefall Tuesday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled over 500 points in late afternoon trades, following steep declines in other global markets.

FT.com - Wall Street stocks fell sharply on Tuesday, triggering trading curbs and reversing this year's gains as the slump in China's main stock index encouraged investors to sell riskier assets. More Info...  

AFP - World stock markets plunged on Tuesday as fears about an economic slowdown in the United States and the end of the Chinese economic bubble sparked a global wave of selling.

FT.com - Wall Street stocks fell sharply in early trading as a slump in China's main stock index encouraged investors to sell riskier assets. More Info...  

FT.com - Wall Street stocks opened broadly lower but stabilised by mid-morning on Tuesday, after a slump in China's main stock index encouraged investors to buy less risky assets. More Info...