With the U.S. presidential election drawing to a close, who are the rest of the world betting on to win? Election pools are thriving around the world.
While yesterday's US stock market close was poor, Asia and Europe didn't follow today as debt in Greece, Spain, Portugal, etc... rallied, their CDS narrowed and stocks bounced. The Greek finance minister said January tax revenues came in above expectations and that spending was below target for the month and said "that means the deficit reduction for January is well within what we have promised." The euro is rising in turn. Also helping is the story that Trichet is headed to the European Union leaders summit a day early in order to address Greece's problems even as the Greek finance...
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November 4th, 2008 at 12:34 am
No video for me! I see a black frame, a play button, a line and 00:00 on top. A small x in a circle about 80% down on right side. That’s all. Clicking the play button changes it to a pause button.