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[Subdivisions]

TANKED! On the news of one financial intitutions revelation that they're funds are insolvent.

And it's probably just getting started.

Booooooooyyyy howdy! Lookit that sea of red. Whew! Good thing the markets close.

[AlCzervik]

1. and it's all sectors, everybody is getting hit--no more home equity lines means

many major purchases won't be made, the sub prime mess will effect all business's imo. Theres some trickle down economics for ya.

[JuniperLea]

2. Tip of the ol' iceberg...

I'm sure.

So, don't they close the market when it hits a certain loss?

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Don't worry. Once Murdock has his staff in place, Dow Jones

and the Wall Street Journal will move the decimal point to the left and no one will lose that much money.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. "soft landing"

[Javaman]

7. As I claw along the sides of the cliff on the way down. nt

[aquart]

5. Which one this time?

[Subdivisions]

8. Get this: It was a French bank- BNP Paribas and that's in

a whole nother country and bringing our markets down. I know about globalisation and all that but when a bank in a whole nother country all the way across Lake Atlantic can bring us down, that's not so good.

[Speck Tater]

6. This is the part where Wylie Coyote looks down and sees only air...

Oops. There's no more ground under his feet. Just wait until tomorrow when the next frame shows him starting to actually FALL...

[partylessinOhio]

9. The Chickens are roosting. The country has tanked - why not the market?

:evilfrown:

[IndianaJones]

10. the economy is strong. don't believe your lying eyes. nt.

[HughMoran]

11. Losing a lot of money is not fun

I am feeling pretty unhappy these days.