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...Tabak in New York City. "And there the index is still about 4% above its November low." Even so, Roth believes Thursday's Dow drop and its new low-water mark will make the next few trading days anxious ones. "It's important psychologically," he says, noting that negative sentiment has kept buyers at bay, and today's technically significant drop could make them even more skittish. Days like this can also be a tipping point of sorts. "It will be important to see over the next week who this motivates, new buyers or new sellers," Roth says...
...sentiment in areas like Qinghai is anything to go by, further protests, arrests and possibly worse seem inevitable given the depth of anger among the Tibetan population. Most Tibetans here refused to undertake any of the public activities that usually mark the coming of the New Year. "There was no dancing or singing. No one let off fireworks, even though the Chinese gave people money to buy them," says one young villager. He says the decision was not coordinated by outside forces (officials from Tibet's government in exile have called for a boycott of the celebrations in interviews with...
...petty tit-for-tat retributions that have been as much a part of the 60-year Arab-Israeli conflict as wars and upheavals. Though the U.A.E. justified the blocking of Peer's visa as a measure taken to protect the player herself from demonstrators and growing anti-Israeli sentiment in the Emirates, the move is widely seen in Israel as a public - and pointless - rebuke in response to the Israeli military incursion into Gaza earlier this year. The Women's Tennis Association has reprimanded the Emirates for politicizing the sporting event and is considering canceling future events in the country...
...Investor sentiment was shaken over the holiday weekend by news that Japan's economy shrank at an annualized rate of almost 13% in the latest quarter. Economic news from virtually every corner of the world is reinforcing the notion that this economic storm knows no bounds, and may be gaining fury...
...Gaza since the Israeli offensive, many in Fatah view their movement's only hope of re-establishing a leading role in Palestinian politics as being to join a unity government with Hamas - and begin to directly challenge the Israeli occupation in the West Bank. The fact that such a sentiment coincides with Israel's electing a more hawkish government suggests that the Middle East could be in for a long, hot summer...