Stories Related to European And Asian Shares Slide

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, New York Times
Mon, 05/11/2009 - 4:51am

Investors booked gains on last week’s rally and turned cautious about claims that the global economy is past the worst and ready to recover.

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