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TOKYO, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Shrinking exports, a strong yen and people's concerns about the economic prospect have kept the Japanese stock market plummeting over the past weeks, analysts say.
Tokyo stocks continued a downtrend Friday with the key Nikkei 225 average shedding 811.90 points, or 9.60 percent, to 7,649.08, a new low in more [...]

Wall Street finally got what it had been demanding all week, a financial rescue package, but by the time the gavel fell in Washington on Friday, investors had turned their attention to other problems in the economy.
On Monday, the House of Representatives rejected a
for the nation’s financial system, causing the Dow Jones industrial [...]