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...time for investors to celebrate, right? On Monday the Dow Jones industrial average ended up a stunning 936 points, the biggest one-day point gain in history - all the more remarkable considering the index of blue-chip stocks had just come off its worst weekly loss on record. The S&P 500, a broader measure of the stock market, saw its largest one-day percentage gain since 1939, and the tech-heavy NASDAQ jumped 12%. Seems a gaggle of European countries rolling out billions of dollars to guarantee loans and recapitalize banks, and indications that the U.S. might do some...
...Archie C. Epps III, then the dean of students, responded to a special charge that he received to address race relations with a program called “Harvard Discovery.” At the core of the one-day exercises was a booklet of readings ranging from Emerson to Henry Louis Gates Jr., now the Fletcher University Professor. Its purpose, Epps said, was “to take us from diversity to unity as a class and as a College...
...Swiss, Canadian and Swedish banks. But the announcement arrived after Asian markets had closed, too late to put the brakes on a near free fall in Asian stocks that began on Monday. In Japan, the world's second-largest economy, the benchmark Nikkei index plummeted 9.4%, its biggest one-day drop since the global stock market crash of October 1987. Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index fell 8.2%, while Seoul's Kospi dropped 5.8%. Indonesia shut down its stock market after shares plunged more than 10%. It is unclear when trading will resume. "We need to watch further before...
...one-day national strike over rising living costs paralyzed much of the country, with public transport grinding to a halt, including international rail services like the Eurostar. An estimated 190 mi of traffic jams were reported on the motorways by 7:30 a.m. Supermarkets shut their doors, production stopped at factories, and schools, post offices and museums closed across the country...
...bill passed the House 263 to 171 - with 91 Republicans and 172 Dems voting yes - a larger margin than expected, considering the bill's spectacular failure, 228 to 205, on Monday that caused the largest one-day drop, 778 points, in the Dow Jones industrial average. Very soon after passage, President Bush signed the bill into law, finally giving Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson the authority that he requested more than two weeks ago to buy up Wall Street's distressed mortgage-backed securities. But getting it done was not pretty or easy, and the clearest sign of that...