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Shares plummet on fears of global slowdown

US stocks suffered their steepest drop since markets reopened following the September 11 attacks in 2001, after the biggest fall in Chinese shares for a decade and slides in other global stock markets triggered a sharp rise in risk aversion.

Syria and Iran to attend Iraq meeting

Countries join US/UK at Baghdad gathering

Enel plunges into battle for Endesa

Italian group buys 9.9% in Spanish utility

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Prodi set to win vote of confidence

Question mark remains over political stability

TXU seeks alternatives to TPG-KKR bid

Several other buyout groups contacted

IMF told to leave World Bank’s work

Hard-hitting report on lack of collaboration

Revolt hits German corporate tax reform

Finance minister pressed by own party

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China/markets

On the face of it, it is hard to think of a less likely trigger for trouble in global equity markets. China has long been on the mind of investors everywhere.

Markets

Dow’s sharp fall

John Authers

Markets fall, and sometimes they do so very sharply. But Dow’s sudden tumble into the abyss was something exceptional. There was no single cause for the sudden fall, just as there was no clear single trigger for the Chinese sell-off earlier in the day, writes John Authers.

Interview

‘Made in Italy’ to tempt Chinese

luxury goods

Michele Norsa, chief executive of Salvatore Ferragamo, was hired last October to help prepare the Italian luxury goods group for a possible stock market listing some time in the next two years. He has just completed a tour of the company’s Asian operations, and formulating a China strategy tops his agenda.

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‘Land for Iraq’ is best hope for regional stability

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A grand bargain engineered by the US could help bring peace to the Middle East, writes Mamoun Fandy of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

How Italy can start calling the tune on the world stage

pop music

The country should give up its quest for diplomatic prestige and focus instead on its light music, writes William Ward, London correspondent of Panorama and Il Foglio

Pick the best European cherries

Cherries

Faced with the task of finding a way through for the EU constitution, Germany should produce a mini-treaty, writes Lord Kerr, who was secretary-general of the EU convention.


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