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Doom and gloom wrap: more bad news from the US

Wall Street has a dead cat bounce one day, but returned to reality the next as more write-downs are revealed by banks and a big US state fund becomes embroiled in the subprime disaster, writes Glenn Dyer.

The US stumbles… but it’s only the US

Funny thing about credit ratings agencies: instead of warning there’s a bomb inside the building, they have a marked tendency to subsequently examine the rubble and announce it’s not worth as much as it used to be.