As 2011 comes to a close, I know that it hasn’t been a good year to many out there, but as we enter 2012 things are beginning to look up; The stock market is up, unemployment is on the way down, the housing and real estate markets have started to turn in the positive direction and the long war in Iraq has come to an end. It seems that we are on the right track for a great new year (that is of course if the world doesn’t on before the 2012 is over).
Category Archives: stock markets
Happy New Year to One and All
Filed under family and friends, Happy New Year, Iraq War, stock markets, unemployment
Friday Funnies: E-Trade Baby Loses Everything
With all of the volatility surrounding the stock market this week, fortunes have been lost and regained in record time. It’s enough to make even the E-Trade baby a little sick.
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Overseas Markets in trouble this morning: Nikkei dives 9.4 percent, biggest 1-day fall since ’87
The Nikkei average plunged 9.4 percent on Wednesday, its biggest drop since the 1987 stock market crash, as growing fears of a global recession led investors to wipe $250 billion off the value of Tokyo shares…
…Panic over the fast-spreading financial crisis dragged down markets across Asia, with Japanese steelmakers such as Nippon Steel Corp (5401.T) sliding, as the Nikkei set another five-year closing low. It has lost 19 percent in the past five days.
Filed under Financial crisis, stock markets, the Nikki, Yahoo News
>Overseas Markets in trouble this morning: Nikkei dives 9.4 percent, biggest 1-day fall since ’87
>The Nikkei average plunged 9.4 percent on Wednesday, its biggest drop since the 1987 stock market crash, as growing fears of a global recession led investors to wipe $250 billion off the value of Tokyo shares…
…Panic over the fast-spreading financial crisis dragged down markets across Asia, with Japanese steelmakers such as Nippon Steel Corp (5401.T) sliding, as the Nikkei set another five-year closing low. It has lost 19 percent in the past five days.
Filed under Financial crisis, stock markets, the Nikki, Yahoo News