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Video: I.O.U.S.A movie

Hi mates, If you have 30min of spare time to watch this video, I urge you to take some time and view this. In my opinion, it will give you a good picture of what may be the next worry, after the US economy has generally been stabilised. Enjoy...

Should We Use A Stop Loss?

I hope this video is an enlightening moment for some of us. This video does contain some vulgarities and obscene languages, so please watch only if you can accept the language. Stock Futures Trader losses it all and flips out - Watch more free videos

Fed offers $85B in return for 80% stake in AIG

Seems like we can avoid another scene like that in AIA Singapore again.  No rate cut was made. The Federal Reserve is readying a loan of $85B to AIG, in exchange for an 80% stake in the insurer. Barclays is buying some of Lehman's assets, where the US bankruptcy judge approves "automatic stay" status for JP Morgan to continue providing trade-clearing advances to Lehman's broker-dealer unit. WAMU is also up 16% due to talks of fresh interest from a large institution.  Thus, has all these events salvaged the turbulence in Asia, and create a positive spur of sentiment for the international markets? Let's take a quick snapshot in early Asia and US closing markets in the morning. All Ordinaries  Australia 4,843.4 8:28AM SGT  43.600 (0.91%) Nikkei 225 Japan 11,830.34 8:28AM SGT     220.62 (1.90%) KOSPI  Korea 1,425.59 8:48 AM SGT   37.84 (2.73%) S&P 500 US 1,213.59 20.89 (1.75%) DJIA 11,059.02  141.51 (1.30%) Nasdaq 100 1,724.08   18.62...