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Post China selloff leaves stocks reeling
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks headed for an early selloff Friday, following a volatile trading session in Asian markets that ended with the Shanghai Composite down more than 5%.

Dow Jones industrial average (INDU), S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq (COMP) futures were all sharply lower ahead of the opening bell. Futures measure current index values against perceived future performance.

Stocks sank Thursday, a day after Cisco Systems issued a sales forecast that disappointed many investors. The network equipment maker is seen as a bellwether for demand across the technology sector.

Read more here: http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/12/markets/premarkets/index.htm?hpt=T2

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Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:26 am
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Post Re: China selloff leaves stocks reeling
As of 12:34pm, all American indices are down, from Canada to Argentina.
All precious metals are down about 3.5%.

Dow down 1.2%
NASDAQ down 1.7%
S&P down 1.36%
AMEX down 1.57%

Most European markets down, but only slightly; DAX up slightly

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China Move Could Counter Fed’s Efforts
By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: November 19, 2010

Commercial banks were ordered to transfer an additional 0.5 percent of their assets by Nov. 29 to very low-yielding accounts at the central bank, the People’s Bank of China. The central bank relies mainly on these reserves for the renminbi to buy about $1 billion a day worth of dollars, euros and other currencies — purchases that prevent the renminbi from appreciating.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/busin ... wt=nytimes

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China's credit bubble on borrowed time as inflation bites

The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to take out protection against the risk of a sovereign default by China as one of its top trade trades for 2011. This is a new twist.

It warns that the Communist Party will have to puncture the credit bubble before inflation reaches levels that threaten social stability. This in turn may open a can of worms.

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The Politburo said on Friday that China would move from "relatively loose" money to a "prudent" policy next year, a recognition that credit rationing, price controls, and other forms of Medieval restraint are not enough. The question is whether Beijing has already left it too late.

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"I remain convinced we are witnessing a bubble of epic proportions which will burst – catching investors as unawares as the bursting of the Asian bubbles of the mid-1990s. Ignore these indicators at your peril," he said

In a sense, inflation is a crude way of curbing China’s export surpluses and therefore of resolving a key trade imbalance that lay behind the global credit crisis.

http://tinyurl.com/24b3z58

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