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Investors and money managers in Asia were relieved yesterday after the 7% plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which marked the largest one-day points drop in Wall Street history, did not ignite a calamitous selloff on Asian markets. There was some damage after Washington failed to pass a $700 billion bailout plan for the U.S. financial system, the catalyst for Wall Street's plunge. Japan's Nikkei Index fell 4.1% on Sept. 30; after declining in early trading, stocks in China and Hong Kong eked out small gains. "The reaction was not as bad as I had feared...
Japan's Nikkei and Hong Kong's Hang Seng indexes fell by 5% or more in overnight trading before ending Tuesday down 4.1% and .85 respectively; exchanges in London, Paris and Frankfurt all opened slumping before winding up 1.7%, .4%, and 2% ahead. Compare that with Monday's 7% drop the Dow Jones and 9.1% slide on the Nasdaq...
...Aside from a glut of straight up banal sentences - "Biddinger's great talent, Billy knew, was that at any sudden moment he could drop his easy friendliness, let his dark eyes narrow into two slits like gun holes, and turn mean." (Slits like gun holes?) - one of Blum's three main characters, D.W. Griffith, doesn't even really belong in the book. Despite Blum's best efforts to incorporate the director, Griffith plays no part in the crime, investigation or subsequent court case. The book's epilogue, in which Griffith, Darrow, and Burns briefly walk by each other...
...trying to assess the impact of recent events.“They are mostly saying now, ‘Wow, this is unprecedented,’ and are reluctant to prognosticate,” she said.Although financial markets have stagnated for over a year, Harvard has not experienced a drop in fundraising. The University recently announced its second-largest fundraising total in history for the year ending June 30, though Rogers noted there tends to be a delay between economic turmoil and effects on philanthropy.Across the country, other universities are grappling with the question of how this crisis will impact...
...much, and would require Wall Street to pay the cost of its mistakes, through insurance premiums. "The main thing is to protect the taxpayer," said Georgia Republican Phil Gingrey. "We don't really feel like there's a gun held to our head to get this accomplished by a drop dead time...