By Andrew Roche Euro zone services and manufacturing data suggested on Friday that economic contraction may be worse in 2009, dragging European shares to 6-year lows, while Japan said the fall in company profits was accelerating. Investors piled into government bonds and gold as those fears and concern over the level of exposure of western European banks to eastern European economies hit the euro currency as well as bank stocks. The euro zone February flash purchasing...
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