Kauppalehti is a Finnish paper focused on financial news and articles which uses misleading headlines online to gather visitors to their site.
The most recent example is this article (again in Finnish, sorry) here:
http://www.kauppalehti.fi/5/i/talous/uutiset/etusivu/uutinen.jsp?oid=2009/10/26784
The title is freely translated "Bank: The stock market might crash again"
The article itself is based on a comment from Paul Achleitner, the financial director of Allianz who said that it's his solely personal opinion, that the financial market has moved faster than the economy has recovered. That is it. He says that Allianz is now careful at the stock market.
There is no immediate threat of a stock market crash. Allianz is mostly an insurance company anyway, but they do offer asset management.
The topic is misleading and created to draw traffic, intentionally so. Keep an eye out if you will, it's not the first time Kauppalehti exaggerates a headline to make it more interesting.
Satu Hirvelä is responsible for this turd.
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