Halting the Market Slide
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The financial crisis battered stock markets across the world. Governments in many countries acted in concert to avert a global catastrophe.
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DAHLIA Octaviani Noferdie was baffled when her house in Castro Valley in San Francisco, worth US$800,000, was valued only at US$100,000 by her bank. She was even more baffled when she was asked to pay US$6,000 in monthly installments on the house, twice the usual amount of US$3,000. “The price of the house plunged, but monthly installment went up,” the 28-year-old Indonesian woman told Tempo last week.
The mother of three rushed to hire a la
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