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Date Added: June 07, 2008 01:44:02 PM
Steven Mufson and Neil Irwin A soaring jobless rate, an unprecedented jump in oil prices and a sliding dollar sent tremors through financial markets Friday and cast fresh doubt on how soon the U.S. economy would be able to break out of a pattern of feeble growth and financial instability.

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