Asian markets open to falls worse than Monday's performance
The Dow dropped 389 points today to close at 11,780, while Nasdaq and S&P saw dives over 3 percent. The weakness is being blamed on Europe "as the realization sank in that Italy now must find a new political regime stable enough to implement painful cutbacks and tax increases."
Apparently the market trusts gold--not politicians
Prada is the latest company to pursue an IPO in Hong Kong
The SEC hasn't done a lot in the way of implementing safeguards
News of the U.S. raid boosted stocks and lowered gold and oil
Something like this was bound to happen, investors say
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