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Five things we learnt this week

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Halloween's not until the end of the month but the markets have already been spooked. Traders ran scared from terrified markets on Wednesday leaving stocks crashing and indices falling off cliffs. The so-called 'flash crash' was sparked by weaker than expected US retail sales data against a background of fresh fears about the Eurozone.
What did the turmoil tell us? Here are five things we learnt about the global economy this week.