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...Analysts are concerned that the vote of no confidence from the government would cause consumers to flee the banks, taking deposits and forcing the firms to liquidate or be sold. Among the nation's largest banks that have not yet announced they have been approved for the government's TARP assistance are Synovus Financial Corp, M&T Bank, New York Community Bancorp, Colonial Bancgroup and the South Financial Group...
...week, on fears the firm wouldn't qualify for government assistance. On Thursday, though, the firm said it had applied to receive TARP funds. The company's shares rallied on the news to a recent $1.98. Colonial, based in Montgomery, Ala., is one of the nation's largest regional banks, with more than 340 branches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Texas, and $16.8 billion in customers' deposits...
...risk by investing in a portfolio of hedge funds and hence are considered safer. But since hedge funds are doing badly, so are funds of hedge funds, which appear to be headed for their worst year ever. On Nov. 6, shares in London-based Man Group, the world's largest publicly traded fund manager, fell 31% on news that its Man Global Strategies fund of funds had lost more than 20% of its value so far this year...
...depressed mood is typical of the gloom that has enveloped the world's 13th largest economy. As has happened around the world, the panic that began on Wall Street has seeped into the minds and hearts of South Korean businessmen, bankers and housewives, who fear the consequences of an impending global recession. With the country heavily reliant on exports, South Korea, like the rest of Asia, cannot escape the fallout from a U.S. downturn. Goldman Sachs predicts GDP growth will sink to 3.9% in 2009, the lowest since...
...that probiotics aren't a passing fad but part of a trend in which people try to prevent illness through food and exercise rather than waiting until they get sick and taking medicine. The company's advisers, he says, "see probiotics, particularly for immunity and digestive health, as the largest and most enduring functional food trend - significantly bigger than omega-3 and plant oils to lower cholesterol...