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FT.com - It was not the expected St Patrick's Day Massacre. US stocks briefly fell into a bear market on Monday, as the S&P 500 dropped 20 per cent below the intra-day peak it hit last October, but then made a spirited attempt to shrug off the world financial system's worst crisis in many decades.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Janus Capital Group's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Andrew J. Iseman will resign from all of his positions at Janus and its subsidiaries effective April 3, according to a regulatory filing late Monday. The asset-management company also said it has adopted a stock trading plan under Rule 10b5-1 to facilitate the ongoing repurchase of stock under Janus' previously-announced stock repurchase program.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Florida Democratic Party will not hold a mail-in vote to 'redo' the presidential primary, The Associated Press reported late Monday. The plan was abandoned after party leaders expressed concerns about the proposal to resolve a delegate dispute with the national party, the AP reported.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

Concern over a major financial crisis hitting a European bank is now being echoed with a vengeance in the markets. As the US crisis spreads, it is exposing institutional shortcomings in the regulatory pillars that underpin the financial system

FEARS are growing that the US Federal Reserve may soon find itself short of the funds needed to continue propping up the nation's financial system.

While we may have to wait a while for plug-in electric cars to be viable for highway use, there's plenty of other applications where battery-powered vehicles already make a lot of sense. One such application is for agricultural and industrial utility vehicles, which are driven around primarily on a business's premises. Distances are generally quite short, speeds low and use often infrequent - but they need to have good carrying capacity for heavy gear, and be cheap to run and maintain. Boshart's electric Tersus, based on the Phoenix SUT but with a smaller, much less expensive battery, provides a viable, green alternative utility vehicle around a private campus, with speeds up to 25mph, 4-passenger plus 1000lbs payload capacity and a 1-hour recharge to 80% capacity...Tags: ElectricRelated Articles: Fully-electric, 95mph Sports Utility charges in 10 minutes Ford testing 120mpg plug-in hybrid Escape Breakthrough lithium battery charges to 90% in just 5 minutes Subaru doubles the bat

One third of CIOs surveyed believed they would not be able to find the electricity, cooling capacity, space or budgets they need to continue to expand their data centers.

After years of debate, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently proposed letting fund companies provide shorter prospectuses, or legal-disclosure documents to shareholders.

Negative arrows govern UAE stocks... Gold price fixed above symbolic 1000 dollar mark... Bahrain cabinet raises concerns over construction material and worker shortage... global economy could be brought to knees according to investment guru Dr. Marc Faber, speaking at IPO Summit in Abu Dhabi... MEED announces 2nd Middle East Road Infrastructure conference for end of March... 2008 World Insurance Forum in Dubai, held outside of Bermuda for first time... Qatar introduces universal health care rules... Arab Gulf governments urged to tackle inflation.

President Mubarak orders Egypt's army to bake more bread to cope with serious shortages.