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Members of a U.S. financial industry group visiting China this week to push for more open capital markets said they found officials here alarmed by the credit crisis, but eager to work together to resolve problems.

Sales of passenger vehicles in India fell by 9.1 percent in October, as high interest rates and tight consumer credit took their toll on what had been one of the world's fastest growing automobile markets, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, an industry group.

China's manufacturing activity slowed sharply in October amid weaker export demand despite a flurry of official measures to boost flagging growth in the world's fourth-largest economy, an industry group reported Monday.

Asia-Pacific airlines are bracing for a rough ride over the next few months after recording a sharp drop in passenger and cargo traffic in September, an industry group said Wednesday.

A private industry group says the economy's health improved for the first time in five months in September as interest rate spreads, supplier deliveries and new orders strengthened.

An industry group says a record 9.2 percent of American homeowners with a mortgage were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of June, as damage from the housing crisis continues to mount.

A recession is likely to descend on Britain within the next six to nine months, the British Chambers of Commerce warned on Monday.

The rapid growth in Chinese sales of sedans, SUVs and light trucks slowed sharply in July as sales rose just 6.8 percent over the same month of 2007, the lowest monthly expansion rate in two years, an industry group reported Friday.

Newsstand sales of magazines fell 6.3 percent in the first half of 2008, an industry group said Monday, as rising gas and food costs led consumers to cut back on nonessential spending.

Newsstand sales of U.S. magazines fell 6.3 percent in the first half of 2008, an industry group said Monday, as rising gas and food costs led consumers to cut back on nonessential spending.