Investor fears. Now they say the decline is not likely to continue since u. S. Fundamentals are still strong but they say investors will be looking for more economic stimulus measures from the chinese government. Investors unloaded stocks sending prices down across the board moments after the opening bell. The dow jones plummeted 1,089 points at one stage from fridays close. Market later recovered but tumbled once again ending the day at 15,871 down 588 points from fridays close. Now the key index dropped more than 1,000 points last week following concerns over a slowdown in the chinese economy and anticipation of a potential Interest Rate hike in the u. S. Now in currency markets, the yen continues to go higher. At one stage it reached 116 yen to the dollar. Now mounting concerns about china triggered a plunge in Global Equity prices and for more, lets go to our Business Reporter standing by at the tokyo stock exchange. Good morning. Overnight we saw the wall street post the worst day
Investor fears. Now they say the decline is not likely to continue since u. S. Fundamentals are still strong but they say investors will be looking for more economic stimulus measures from the chinese government. Investors unloaded stocks sending prices down across the board moments after the opening bell. The dow jones plummeted 1,089 points at one stage from fridays close. Market later recovered but tumbled once again ending the day at 15,871 down 588 points from fridays close. Now the key index dropped more than 1,000 points last week following concerns over a slowdown in the chinese economy and anticipation of a potential Interest Rate hike in the u. S. Now in currency markets, the yen continues to go higher. At one stage it reached 116 yen to the dollar. Now mounting concerns about china triggered a plunge in Global Equity prices and for more, lets go to our Business Reporter standing by at the tokyo stock exchange. Good morning. Overnight we saw the wall street post the worst day
On north korea if they detected signs the country was about to initiate a nuclear attack. And it happens just once every 20 years, but when one of shi o shintos most important goddesses moves house its spectacular. Republican and democratic law maeks in the u. S. Are blaming each other for a partial Government Shutdown. They failed to agree on a spending plan for the fiscal year that began tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees are facing unpaid leave. President obama is blaming the republicanled house of representatives. Legislators there are demanding that the budget bill includes a delay in immreming obamas Health Care Reforms. Theyve shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny Affordable Health insurance to millions of americans. Obama warned the longer the shutdown goes on, the worse the impact will be. House lawmakers on tuesday proposed legislation to restart some government functions including national parks. But democrats in the house and Senate O
[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] looking at some of our live events today across the seas about network, and about half an hour, leon panetta will take part in a joint briefing with his south korean counterpart. You can see that starting at 10 03 eastern here on cspan. At 10 50, we will show you a forum on legal issues from the u. S. Chamber of commerce. The speakers include several attorneys general and Rudy Giuliani and that is on cspan 2. At 2 20 eastern, paul ryan will be in cleveland speaking to ohio voters. We will have a live for you. A little bit later, president obama is out west today in denver and we will have his remarks live at 4 50 eastern on cspan. Asking middle and High School Students to send a message to the president in a short video. They will answer the question what is the most important issue the president should consider it in 2013. It is the cspan student camp video competition. For
Supporters but said his standing against moon would not be good for the people. Ahn and moon were in talks aimed at selecting a single candidate between them for the upcoming election, but they failed to reach an agreement. One of the two needed to compromise, and he was the one to do so. Ahn was a former software entrepreneur. He was popular with young voters and others not affiliated with the national party. He visited colleges across south korea and spoke to students facing high unemployment. Moon will challenge the ruling partys frontrunner park geunhye in a oneonone battle for the presidency. Park is leading the polls ahead of next months election. A ceasefire between israeli militants appears to be holding. No major violence has been reported since thursday when the truce went into effect. Israeli military has started to withdraw its tanks and Armored Vehicles near the border with the gaza strip. It has also started to release about 60,000 reserve soldiers. Many palestinians were