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Not much shelter from market chaos

23/01/2016 GMT

Not Much Shelter from Market Chaos

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Financial markets went into virtual meltdown this week. But did they need to?

It was a grim outlook for financial markets world-wide - stocks lost billions of dollars, as oil prices fell and China seemed to face growing problems. But did things really need to be that bad? 

Also, Kenya reels under the al-Shabab attack on an African Union military base in Somalia; the US Supreme Court prepares to throw a bombshell into the presidential election by putting immigration at the top of the political agenda; and fairy-tales - they are truer than you might think.

(Photo: People wait to cross a street in front of a stock market indicator board in Tokyo. Credit: AP)

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