Word: headful
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...mood on June 15 was further darkened by newly released data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The bank's Empire State Manufacturing Survey showed a sharp decline for May, reflecting further weakness in new orders. That news came on the heels of grim tidings from the head of the International Monetary Fund, which noted on June 15 that the worst phase of the global recession may be yet to come...
Despite June 15th's market weakness, investment managers are optimistic that stocks will not head back to their March lows, since the scariest part of the financial crisis appears to be over. That said, most do anticipate an ongoing correction that might take stock prices down another...
...Iran's parliamentary speaker Al Larijani purportedly told the West to mind its own business, E.U. spokesman Amadeu Altafaj Tardio said the European Commission is "extremely worried" about the deaths of protesters. Meanwhile, Meir Dagan - head of Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad - told the Israeli parliament he doesn't think the civil unrest in Iran will last long...
Reports out of Tehran describe security forces shooting at protesters. No word yet on how widespread this shooting is or on casualties. (To see a photo from one of the incidents, click here. Be warned that the photo contains graphic content.) Trita Parsi, a U.S.-based Iran expert and head of the National Iranian-American Council, tells TIME that the hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters on the streets today have been emboldened by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei's backing down from his initial certification of the election result. "He came out first and said the results were certified...
...election result likely to prompt street protests and provide ammunition to hawks in the West, it also affirmed a challenge to much of the Islamic Revolution's established political class. Ahmadinejad branded the entire revolutionary establishment as feckless and corrupt, prompting appeals to Khamenei from former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, head of the Assembly of Experts, who was one of Ahmadinejad's chief targets. But he and others got little sympathy for their complaints that the president's attacks undermined the legitimacy of the revolution itself. Some tartly pointed out that since Khamenei himself was president from 1981 to 1989, Ahmadinejad...