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Retail Sales to Suffer in 2009 as U.S. Consumers Curtail Spending

[Editor's Note: This is the seventh installment of our “Outlook 2009” series, which is detailing the global investing outlook for 2009.]

By Jennifer Yousfi
Contributing Writer
Money Morning

Retail experts are predicting one of the most dismal holiday shopping seasons in decades this year –…

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With its Pension Fund Grab, is it ‘Déjà Vu All Over Again’ For Argentina?

By Jennifer Yousfi
Contributing Writer
Money Morning

By grabbing $26 billion in private pension money last month, Argentina may have put itself on track for its second debt default in a decade – ironically, the very situation that country’s government had hoped its…

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Exxon Mobil Posts Record $14.8 Billion Profit, Shell Tops Estimates

By Jennifer Yousfi
Managing Editor
Money Morning

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) set a U.S. profit record today (Thursday) when it announced its third quarter profit topped $14.8 billion on record-high oil prices.

Exxon Mobil, the largest U.S. oil company, earned $14.8 billion, or…

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Las Vegas Sands Shares Soar After Singapore Deals Itself In

By Jennifer Yousfi
Managing Editor
Money Morning

Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS) shares more than doubled yesterday (Wednesday) after Singapore’s government pledged support for the completion of a local $4 billion casino project.

Las Vegas Sands stock hit a daily high of $10.97, before…

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Volkswagen's Racing Shares Fueled by Porsche Investment

By Jennifer Yousfi
Managing Editor
Money Morning

Short-sellers scrambling for cover sent shares of Volkswagen AG (OTC ADR: VLKAY) rocketing up more than $1,000 each yesterday (Tuesday), to briefly give the German automaker the most valuable market capitalization in the world.

Volkswagen’s Frankfurt-traded…

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Four Ways to Protect Your Retirement From the Ongoing Financial Crisis

By Jennifer Yousfi
Managing Editor
Money Morning

In the depths of a bear market that has carved between $500 billion and $2 trillion from U.S. retirement accounts so far this year, as many as two-thirds of all Americans have stopped contributing to their…

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Dow Zooms Above 9,000 on Eve of Expected Fed Rate Cut

By Jennifer Yousfi
Managing Editor
Money Morning

U.S. equities rallied yesterday (Tuesday) as the U.S. Federal Reserve convened for the first day of a two-day meeting of its monetary policy committee.

At the New York close, all three major U.S. indices had sizeable gains:

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Tight Credit for Farmers Leads to Smaller Crops, Higher Prices and More Hunger

By Jennifer Yousfi
Managing Editor
Money Morning

Tighter credit for farmers could worsen a global food crisis as smaller crop sizes cause prices to soar.

Many farmers have traditionally bought pre-season supplies such as seeds and fertilizer on credit and then paid off…

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Global Sell-Off Takes a Toll on U.S. Equities

By Jennifer Yousfi
Managing Editor
Money Morning

U.S. markets tumbled Friday as a global sell-off spread from Asia and Europe, as fears of a worldwide recession intensified.

At the New York close on Friday, the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average Index had plunged 312.62…

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Recession Fears Hit Home as World Markets Plummet and U.S. Economy Contracts

By Jennifer Yousfi
Managing Editor
Money Morning

Fear of a global recession is quickly becoming reality as world markets have lost $10 trillion in value in the month of October and the U.S. economy almost certainly contracted in the third quarter.

“The growing…

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