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Confidence in the global economy fell for the third straight month in February 2008, as North Americans became more pessimistic about the slowing U.S. economy and its impact on global growth, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday.

The Bloomberg Professional Global Confidence Index fell to 14.3 in February 2008 from 21.0 in January 2008, Bloomberg News reported. Further, although North America respondents were the most pessimistic about economic conditions in their region, Asia respondents were the most pessimistic about the global economy.

Global equity markets have lost more than $6 trillion this year as investors fled financial and cyclical stocks on fears mortgage and mortgage-asset defaults will continue to slow both U.S. economic growth and also restrict access to credit that corporations need to conduct business and expand operations.

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