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The stock market recovered from earlier losses after a string of poor economic data threatened to curtail recent gains. The housing market may be forming a bottom, however.

Natural Gas futures shed nearly 2 per cent in the domestic market on Friday as investors and speculators exited positions in the energy commodity tracking a bearish trend in the overseas market as cooler weather in the US in the near-term threatened to cut demand for the power plant fuel which is used to fire up air conditioners as cooling

News that European authorities are devising a plan to shore up big banks threatened by the region's debt crisis helped ignite a strong rebound in the substantially oversold Hong Kong market.