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• Douglas Kass: The Stock Market Is Hitting Its Top

  

  Despite recent stock market gains, famed strategist Douglas Kass thinks stocks face many headwinds.

• AFRICA INVESTMENT-Is Africa's focus on GDP misplaced?

  JOHANNESBURG, Jan 25- Emerging economies, including many in Africa, are enjoying some of the strongest GDP growth rates in the world but much of this growth is an illusion and could be detrimental over the long term, a new book says. Its author, Lorenzo Fioramonti, is associate professor of political science at South Africa's University of Pretoria.

• POLL-Outlook for euro zone's economic strugglers worsens again

  *Growth outlook for Greece, Portugal, Ireland cut. LONDON, Jan 16- Spain, Greece and Portugal face a tougher 2013 than previously thought, while the outlook for growth in Ireland, the only bright spot among the euro zone's most vulnerable economies, was cut for the first time in nearly a year.

• What Is the 'Fiscal Cliff'?

  

  The fiscal cliff may sound like the name of an exercise retreat on a mountain top in Southern California, but the reality is not so pretty. What it refers to is the potentially dire economic situation the U.S. faces at the end of 2012.  Here's a look.