Slideshow: A different world view

March 16, 2012 6:52 pm
  • MELBOURNE -- A man studies a fluctuating Australian Securities Exchange board after Australia's central bank slashed interest rates by a full 100 basis points amid fears of a global slowdown sparked by the US-based financial crisis on October 7, 2008.
    William West/AFP/Getty Images
    MELBOURNE -- A man studies a fluctuating Australian Securities Exchange board after Australia's central bank slashed interest rates by a full 100 basis points amid fears of a global slowdown sparked by the US-based financial crisis on October 7, 2008.
  • JAKARTA -- An investor looks at his screen during stock trading on October 7, 2008. The Indonesian share market plunged 10 percent by the close of trade on October 6, on the back of the crisis in the U.S. financial system and high inflation figures, dealers said.
    ADEK BERRY
    JAKARTA -- An investor looks at his screen during stock trading on October 7, 2008. The Indonesian share market plunged 10 percent by the close of trade on October 6, on the back of the crisis in the U.S. financial system and high inflation figures, dealers said.
  • TAIPEI -- An investor looks at the monitors showing falling share prices at a stock trading house Tuesday, Oct. 7. Taiwan share prices closed up 18.96 points, or 0.34 percent, at 5,524.66 points on October 7, recovering from earlier losses due to likely government support after October 6 global market slump, dealers said.
    PATRICK LIN
    TAIPEI -- An investor looks at the monitors showing falling share prices at a stock trading house Tuesday, Oct. 7. Taiwan share prices closed up 18.96 points, or 0.34 percent, at 5,524.66 points on October 7, recovering from earlier losses due to likely government support after October 6 global market slump, dealers said.
  • KUWAIT --Traders follow the market's movement as the Kuwait Stock Exchange, the second largest Arab stock exchange, slumped 3.6 percent Tuesday, apparently after the government rejected calls by lawmakers to intervene in the market.
    YASSER AL-ZAYYAT
    KUWAIT --Traders follow the market's movement as the Kuwait Stock Exchange, the second largest Arab stock exchange, slumped 3.6 percent Tuesday, apparently after the government rejected calls by lawmakers to intervene in the market.
  • MOSCOW-- The head of the Central Bank, Sergei Ignatiev, left, and Russia's Sberbank German Gref officials attend a meeting on the growing domestic and global economic crisis. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged credit, equivilent to up to 36 billion US dollars, to support the country's banks.
    Dmitry Astakvov/AFP/Getty Images
    MOSCOW-- The head of the Central Bank, Sergei Ignatiev, left, and Russia's Sberbank German Gref officials attend a meeting on the growing domestic and global economic crisis. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged credit, equivilent to up to 36 billion US dollars, to support the country's banks.
  • FRANKFURT -- The monitor of Germany's stock share index DAX, shows Tuesdays flucuations. Frankfurt stocks fell back into the red midmorning as a rebound from steep losses on Monday, Oct. 6, ran out of steam amid fresh worries that German banks would fall victim to the financial crisis.
    THOMAS LOHNES
    FRANKFURT -- The monitor of Germany's stock share index DAX, shows Tuesdays flucuations. Frankfurt stocks fell back into the red midmorning as a rebound from steep losses on Monday, Oct. 6, ran out of steam amid fresh worries that German banks would fall victim to the financial crisis.
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Eric Dinallo, Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department, testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Tuesday. The hearing was to examine the causes and effects of the AIG bailout.
    Alex Wong
    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Eric Dinallo, Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department, testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Tuesday. The hearing was to examine the causes and effects of the AIG bailout.

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First Published October 9, 2008 12:00 am
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