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BALI, Indonesia – Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is urging Asian business and political leaders to do more to counter the economic headwinds confronting developing countries by dismantling barriers to trade and investment.
Yudhoyono told a regional summit that as advanced economies are speeding up after a gradual recovery from the global recession, emerging economies are slowing, dogged in some cases by trade deficits, capital flight and weakening currencies.
“The advanced economies are experiencing recovery and showing faster growth while emerging economies … are facing a slowdown,” he said at the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum held amid tight security on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
“APEC is in the ideal position to help the recovery of the global economy,” said Yudhoyono, emphasizing the importance of preventing protectionism and opening markets further to maximize prosperity.
His comments were consistent with a draft of the APEC leaders’ declaration, seen by The Associated Press, which is set to be released at the end of the summit…

NEW YORK, N.Y. – The developing countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China recovered quickly from the financial crisis five years ago. Their spending helped keep a global recession from becoming a global depression.
Now they’re stumbling.
Indians are buying fewer cars for the first time in a decade. Chinese are struggling as economic growth slows to a two-decade low. Even big-spending Brazilians, who like to buy everything from shoes to dental work on credit, are turning thrifty — and angry. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in June to protest rising prices and shoddy public services.
The timing is unfortunate. The economies of the United States, Europe and Japan have gained some momentum in recent months. It seemed that both developed and developing countries would finally be strengthening together as they did before the crisis. Now, hopes for a healthier worldwide economy have been dashed.
The reasons for the slowdown in the BRICs, as the four biggest developing countries are known, are myriad, from a pullback in bank lending in China to crumbling infrastructure and rampant corruption in India…

Oct. 9, 2007 — Dow Jones industrial average peaks at record 14,164.53.
December 2007 — Start of the Great Recession.
Sept. 15, 2008 — Lehman Brothers collapses, triggering financial crisis. Lending freezes around the world, global trade nearly stalls, stocks plunge.
October 2008 — Slow-motion stock market crash in the U.S. Dow drops 2,400 points, or 22 per cent, in the first eight trading days of the month.
Dec. 17, 2008 — To boost the economy, U.S. Federal Reserve lowers short-term lending rate to nearly zero. It remains there nearly five years later.
March 9, 2009 — Dow hits bottom at 6,547.05, down 54 per cent from its peak. Investors lose 12 years of gains, or $11 trillion, in just 17 months.
June 2009 — Official end of the Great Recession.
March 5, 2013 – Dow recovers all its losses. Sets new high of 14,253.77.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Five years after U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a global financial crisis and shattering confidence worldwide, families in major countries around the world are still hunkered down, too spooked and distrustful to take chances with their money.
An Associated Press analysis of households in the 10 biggest economies shows that families continue to spend cautiously and have pulled hundreds of billions of dollars out of stocks, cut borrowing for the first time in decades and poured money into savings and bonds that offer puny interest payments, often too low to keep up with inflation.
“It doesn’t take very much to destroy confidence, but it takes an awful lot to build it back,” says Ian Bright, senior economist at ING, a global bank based in Amsterdam. “The attitude toward risk is permanently reset.”
A flight to safety on such a global scale is unprecedented since the end of World War II.
The implications are huge: Shunning debt and spending less can be good for one family’s finances…