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...revealing CCTV footage of the final moments before the blast. The dramatic scenes, captured by cameras mounted near the roof of the hotel, showed the truck banging against the gates before sniffer dogs alert the guards of the threat. Some of the men can be seen fleeing in a panic when a small explosion takes place in the cab of the truck, causing it to catch fire as vapour is released into the air. A guard tries to extinguish the flames just before the screen goes blue, marking the point at which the explosion destroyed the cameras...
...points for the day. The price of gold shot up by about $80 an ounce and the yield on the three-month Treasury bill maturing Dec. 18 dropped to 0.04% - from 0.68% the day before. "It's a total flight to quality, which points to the sheer panic that's out there," says S&P Equity Research strategist Alec Young...
Obama's case against panic goes like this: Bush is the least popular President in modern history, and McCain was on TV bragging during the Republican primary that he voted with Bush over 90% of the time. The economy is tanking, and McCain is still insisting that the fundamentals remain strong; he's also been a consistent vote against financial regulation, a strong supporter of investing Social Security benefits in the stock market and a recent convert to the Bush tax cuts. Voters prefer Obama's positions to McCain's on almost every major policy issue, and the Republican brand...
Although the Wall Street crisis might have job-seekers in a panic, Harvard’s Office of Career Services (OCS) is countering the downturn with a new philosophy and a new interim director, Robin Mount. Many graduating seniors are nervous about the weak economy this year, as there is sure to be a reduction of job openings in the popular finance sector (last year, 20 percent of graduates went on to work in financial services or management consulting ). Fortunately, well before the economy’s recent plunge, OCS had already begun work on this year?...
...worldwide consequences of an unfolding crisis of confidence among their customers and business partners. The Monetary Authority of Singapore, the city's financial regulator, stated that the financial resources of AIA currently met its requirements - an attempt to assure the public that there was no reason for panic. But after the failure of investment bank Lehman Brothers, the sale of Merrill Lynch, and the bailout of home-mortage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, hundreds of Singaporeans were taking no chances. Standing in the crowd outside AIA's offices, Karen Foo, 29, said she was only dimly aware...