Any Word on The Overseas Markets...

[rsmith6621]

..pre day trading yet......better....worse

[marmar]

1. Trading day is underway......UGLY in Sydney, Tokyo and HongKong

www.marketwatch.com

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. OUCH... the FTSE and the rest will not be fun either

[villager]

2. Asian markets down 3%; Aussie bank plunges 16%....

Asia Stocks Tumble to 3-Year Low on Bank Woes; Macquarie Slumps

By Patrick Rial and Masaki Kondo
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Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks tumbled to the lowest in three years as concerns mounted more financial firms will collapse after the U.S. government's takeover of American International Group Inc.

Macquarie Group Ltd., Australia's largest investment bank, plunged 16 percent. Kookmin Bank, South Korea's biggest lender, dropped 5.5 percent, while Japan's largest lenders were all untraded with the shares offered lower.

``Amid confusion and anxiety in financial markets, investors are more and more reluctant to take risk,'' Yoshinori Nagano, a Tokyo-based senior strategist at Daiwa Asset Management Co., which manages $94 billion, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. ``Everything hangs on U.S. financial firms.''

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell 2 percent to 108.34 as of 9:19 a.m. in Tokyo, set for the lowest finish since October 28, 2005. Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged 2.6 percent to 11,441.81. Equity benchmarks throughout the region declined.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=arW7eBYLDv6s&refer=home

[Gregorian]

3. Nikkei's down nearly 400.

[Ikonoklast]

4. Tokyo, Shanghai getting hammered

http://www.marketwatch.com/

Bank of Japan added 1.5 trillion yen in liquidity, Reserve Bank of Australia added $3 billion, markets still sliding...

[girl gone mad]

6. Moscow suspended all trading.

Russia is in meltdown and blaming us.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/014d5ac0-84e2-11dd-b148-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1

[Warpy]

7. Here's Asia and it's not looking good

http://finance.yahoo.com/intlindices?e=asia

Europe's not awake yet, but expect a bloodbath there, too.

Round 3 here tomorrow.

I still think there will be a weak rally as bargain hunters come out of the woodwork, but I've been wrong before...