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...Worst hit Monday was Tokyo's Nikkei index, whose 6.4% slide to 7,162.9 points marked its lowest level since 1982. Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 12.7%, its biggest single-session drop in 17 years. Other Asian indices suffered more modest declines, but all were down besides South Korea's Kospi, which was up a modest 0.8% due mostly to an interest rate...
...very clear just how little investors [in Asia] had factored in a very steep global slowdown," says Kirby Daley, senior strategist at financial services firm Newedge Group in Hong Kong, where the Hang Seng index fell...
...Nikkei was down 7% to its lowest level in more than five years, electronics giant Sony slashed its 2008 profit forecast by half. In South Korea, where officials said GDP growth is at a two-year low, Samsung reported a 44% earnings drop. That helped drag down the Kospi index by 9%, bringing the total loss for the week to 17%, the South Korea market's worst showing since 1997. "It seems that in the last two weeks, it has dawned on investors in Asia that no one is immune from the slowdown that is to come," says Daley...
...world is in the grips of a perilous market crunch, the boom is over, and tough times loom. The U.K.'s FTSE-100 stock index has nose-dived and is down about 35% in the past year. Two famous British banks have already imploded--Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley. And after a dramatic plunge in the stock price of other banks, on Oct. 8 the British government announced an emergency $88 billion recapitalization package that includes partially nationalizing three other banks: Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Lloyds TSB. The City has been through enough slumps to know what...
...Over the years, he’s stretched out the hole to its present size—capable of accommodating a fork. To demonstrate how he did this, he deftly pushes his tongue about in his mouth and pops out two thick metal stems. He then easily slips his index finger through the fleshy chasm. He wiggles...