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BREAKING US markets tanking - S&P 500 & Nasdaq down >7%

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  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Where's Inspector Monkfish when you need him? Can't even open Bloomberg's web page at the moment.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    mbga9pgf wrote: »
    FTSE100 is currently at 5087 on futures...

    THIS IS NOT ISOLATED TO THE USA!

    Do you think we copy them or they copy us?

    ftsedow.jpg
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    -4.5% now Cleaver
    Not Again
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    tomterm8 wrote: »
    Where's Inspector Monkfish when you need him?

    I've heard on the grapevine that he was the one who pressed the wrong button that caused all this. Last seen on a flight to the Cayman Islands.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Cleaver wrote: »
    Camen Islands.
    Cayman Islands. God help him.
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    Do you think we copy them or they copy us?


    I think we copy them mostly..

    Down to 5000 tomorrow
    Not Again
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    lostinrates wrote: »
    Cayman Islands. God help him.

    I swear if I'd been born 15 years later I'd have been diagnosed as dyslexic. I copy and paste every tenth word in to Google to check my spelling...
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    What I've always admired about the market is its collective intelligence

    I admire the same thing in Sheep :eek:
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »
    -4.5% now Cleaver

    -3.6% now.

    I know this isn't the most accurate and dynamic financial quote service, but at least we're providing a better and more up to date service for Exocet than the BBC are managing.
  • globalds
    globalds Posts: 9,431 Forumite
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/may/02/uk-deficit-bond-speculators-currency
    UK faces run on pound within hours of polling as futures exchange opens early

    Britain could be targeted by speculators in event of hung parliament as traders will be able to bet on collapse in sterling
    Betfair is still showing a hung parliament as favourite.

    How will this affect the market ?
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