1. The Dow drops below 9,000 for the first time in 5 years.Investors are gloomy about the economy of the health coorperations shares of general motors tumbled almost 30 percent to their lowest level since 1950.
2. President Bush will meet with finance officials from other industrialized nations. Hearing from these ministers how the financial crisis are affectting their economy and what they're doing about this.Bush is expected to stress the need for nations to work together to fix the crisis.
3. North Korea says it's reactor * the compound produced its first atomic bomb and were ban UN inspectors from the side. All of this brings the nation closer to relaunching its nuclear weapon programs.
4. In a sign of the times, the national Debt Clock in New York has run out the digits. So was the fix, the dollar sign is being switched to a figure. The No.1 as a 10 trillion dollars, marking the correct debt of the US government. |