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- Aug. 03, 1992: They're All Connected
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 03, 1992 AIDS: Losing the Battle
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- THE WEEK, Page 25
- BUSINESS
- They're All Connected
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- <p>As Japan's stocks plunge, other financial markets are threatened
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- <p> The world's financial markets are so intertwined that when
- one itches, the others scratch. As mounting concerns over Japan's
- reeling economy sent Tokyo's stock exchanges into a dizzying
- vortex last week, markets from Amsterdam to Zurich did some
- rocking and rolling of their own. Tokyo's Nikkei average sank to
- 15,498 points, its lowest level in more than six years, while
- the London stock exchange fell 2.3% and Frankfurt shares
- dropped 5.4%. New York's Big Board sank 46 points, or 1.4%, in
- a week of generally bearish trading.
- </p>
- <p> The Tokyo markets, which have plummeted 30% since January,
- staged a brief comeback Thursday. They were encouraged by the
- launching of the new Securities and Exchange Surveillance
- Commission, Japan's first regulatory agency for stock exchanges,
- and the news that Japanese Premier Kiichi Miyazawa would convene
- a special Cabinet session. The Nikkei resumed its steep downward
- slide Friday, however, after Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata said
- it would be difficult to bolster the market. Business leaders
- have urged the government to take steps to prop up the market.
- Miyazawa, however, is banking on a supplementary budget to
- stimulate the economy, but few economists believe the government
- alone can revive the market.
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