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Stocks end worst week mixed after wild session

Wall Street capped one of its worst weeks ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrials gyrate within a 1,000 point range before closing with a relatively mild loss and the Nasdaq composite index actually ending with a modest advance. Investors were still agonizing over frozen credit markets, but seven days of massive losses and the possibility of further government support for the markets tempted some investors late in the session.

Wanted: Rabbit-Proof Fence

Global markets continued to go totally haywire all day long, as confidence became harder to find than Waldo himself. As a result, lemmings. headless chickens, and rabbits galore made for the exit doors en masse today. Despite the televised address they got from a lame duck. Bulls or bears were invisible. Pigs were at some spa in California. Vultures circled overhead.

Gold Investments Market Update

While gold has again surged on safe haven buying overnight (and is up since 20% since the financial and economic crisis deepened), there is increasing surprise that gold has not surged to its recent record highs especially as there are deepening shortages of retail bullion internationally and the gold holdings of gold ETFs continue to surge.

World stocks slump again

World stock markets fell sharply Friday, as Wall Street headed toward its eighth straight day of losses over fears the global economy is set for a protracted recession.

What rate cut? Interbank lending rates keep rising

Governments around the world have slashed interest rates and ramped up their lending to unprecendented levels, but banks are still charging each other extremely high borrowing rates--a bad sign for the credit markets that remain close to paralysis.

Crashtoberfest (or, Who needs Halloween?)

Having had main chutes as well as the reserve chutes fail, markets around the globe continued to fall into the abyss overnight as confidence became harder to find than Waldo himself. The Nikkei index lost 881 points and the poster of the day just might become this one:

Hong Kong's stock index tumbled 7.2 percent

Hong Kong's key stock index tumbled more than 7 percent Friday as worried investors gave up holdings after steep losses in Wall Street overnight and regional bourses.

Vienna Stock Exchange resumes trading

Trading on the Vienna Stock Exchange resumed after its opening was delayed as a precautionary and calming measure in light of international financial turmoil.

SKorean shares pare losses after early plunge

South Korean share prices pared losses after an early plunge, but still closed sharply lower following another steep decline on Wall Street and falls in regional markets.

Thai stocks tumble 10 percent, trading halted

Trading on the Thai stock market was temporarily halted Friday after a 10 percent slide in its index. A Friday fall of 50.08 points--or 10.02 percent--from the market's previous closing level triggered a so-called "circuit breaker," meaning trading was automatically suspended for 30 minutes.