For investors hunting for yield, bonds from the region offer a better return than those from more developed markets, although some money managers are growing more cautious on the region.

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Dissatisfied by the stalled promise of the Arab Spring, they say that entrepreneurship in the Middle East can yield truly lasting and beneficial change for the region.

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The day's lows occurred late in the session, after Dow Jones Newswires reported that European Union finance ministers' four-hour teleconference failed to yield a new agreement to beef up the region's rescue funds, dashing traders' hopes for progress increasing the region's bailout powers.

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As these links criss-cross one another across a region, these simple measures can be mathematically picked apart to yield a map of the rainfall at a given moment.

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But I hope that all the steps that we take in the future with respect to regional peace will yield results and we can work together with the United States with determination to achieve peace in the region.

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In the Philippines, the overseas armies of construction workers, maids and managers whose remittances supply much of the country's foreign exchange are hanging on to their dollars in the hope that they will yield more pesos tomorrow a graphic demonstration of the loss of confidence which afflicts the entire region.

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