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Overview: Growth concerns undermine appetite for risk

By Dave Shellock

Published: January 12 2009 19:11 | Last updated: January 12 2009 22:30

Global risk appetite deteriorated on Monday, driving down equity and commodity prices and boosting the yen and government bonds, as investors endeavoured to gauge the extent of the global recession.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s leading indicator for November pointed to a deep slowdown in industrial activity in the world’s leading economies.

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