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Subprime woes again rattling stock markets
Sep 8 2008, Rahul Bhandari

Stock markets are again under the US subprime’s vicious gloom as credit crunch creates panic among the investors.

Beset by credit crisis in the global financial markets and tumbling house prices across the country are affecting the stock markets...

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