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2 - Dubai seeks to assure markets
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Stocks skidded Friday as concern swept world markets that financial trouble in the Middle Eastern city-state of Dubai will upend a global economic recovery.
Ask almost anyone who gets up in the wee hours of the morning to stand outside in the November chill just to be among the first to start the holiday shopping season why they do it, one of the more common responses is, "It's the experience!"
Japan got word Friday that prices fell again in October, just as a surging yen threatens to worsen the deflation that is undermining the country's fragile economy.
Just a year after the global downturn derailed Dubai's explosive growth, the city is now so swamped in debt that it's asking for a six-month reprieve on paying its bills — causing a drop on world markets Thursday and raising questions about Dubai's reputation as a magnet for international investment.
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