But leading Chinese portal Sina.com, which went public when Nasdaq was in a free fall, has held up pretty well, at one point even surging beyond 100% of its IPO price before correcting a bit.

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The team is surging with Lin at the point guard position, salvaging what was becoming an increasingly dire situation.

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As I keep saying, at some point the gap between the surging stock market and a crummy economy has to narrow.

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Others point out that a similar period in history of surging globalisation ended not in universal peace but the first world war.

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His sister, who Barthel identified as 16-year-old Madison Wallace, at one point went in after him and ended up falling into the surging water.

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Manufacturing output is surging and GDP growth could exceed the current estimate of 2.5% by a full percentage point.

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In the Czech Republic, a surging koruna has forced the central bank to reverse its policy of tightening: rates were trimmed by a quarter-point in January, to 2.25%, a shade higher than the euro area's.

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