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Where to buy cheap iPad Mini: Price comparison by country

It has been our tradition to compare prices of Apple products in various Asia-Pacific countries in order to determine the country that offers the cheapest iPhone or iPad. We’ll do the same today — this time, for the iPad Mini which was recently launched by Apple in several countries in the past weeks.

We compared the prices of the iPad Mini in 12 countries, and we discovered that the cheapest iPad Mini in Asia-Pacific is being sold in…

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‘Ghost Month’ in August affecting stocks?

Is the “Ghost Month” to blame for the recent rollercoaster ride in stock markets around the world?

During the first two weeks of August, stock markets worldwide had a freefall, went back up again, slid again, then back up once more. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), for example:

  • plummeted 4.31% on August 4 after credit rating agency S&P downgraded the United States
  • declined 5.5% more on August 8
  • bounced back 3.98% on August 9
  • fell another 4.6% on August 10
  • but rose 3.9% on August 11

And it’s probably just starting.

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