Continuing the trend begun yesterday in Europe, Asian markets now open and most are down. See chart at http://app.marketwatch.com/intl/default.asp

-- J Wheel (motherof5@wellprepared.noregrets), January 04, 2000

Answers

I was right about Hong Kong.

NOT Y2K RELATED, but interesting to watch.....

Bad reaction to the NASDAQ selloff, have to see if it will pop up.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), January 04, 2000.

That site reports "We're sorry, but there is no data available at this time. Please try again later."

Huh?

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), January 04, 2000.

Go here, its easier.

http://finance.yahoo.com/m2?u

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), January 04, 2000.

try bloomberg.com and then go to world indices. So far the Nikkei is down over 650 and the Hang-Seng is down anout 1050. Doesn't look good.

-- rcwhite (cw5410@netscape.net), January 04, 2000.

Looks good to me. But then I'm not tall (so what am I?)

-- Me (me@me.me), January 04, 2000.

Looks outstanding,

If your being held upside down!

Tomorrow starts the mother of all markets! Hold on rough patch in the Bump In The Road.

-- Squid (It'sDark@down.her), January 04, 2000.

Squid,

Be fair, BITR is related to supply chain, interconnectivity and the whole system imploding. That didn't happen because Y2k was mostly hype. The stock market bubble has been brewing for a while and it is certainly unclear if it is manipulated or just stupidity run amok.

If it were manipulated then there would be a reason to pull all the sucker money into the market, buy the asset that is ignored while the bubble grows and then pop the bubble. After the bubble is popped, you own the really valuable asset because all the suckers abandonded it for the fake stuff the bubble was made of. Now you can convert small amounts of the real asset and buy what was in the bubble for cents on the dollar and all the fools are in debt to you or declaring bankruptcy and liquidating their hard assets which you can also buy for cents on the dollar or equivalently small amounts of the real asset.

Question for you Squid.....WHAT IS THE REAL ASSET????

-- William R. Sullivan (wrs@whamm.com), January 04, 2000.

Odd how China, Russia, India, Pakista, Egypt & Turkey are the only ones holding up & actually gaining... or were they already undervalued due to everyones expectations of them being the countries most likely to take a crapper? Interesting...

-- Carl (clilly@goentre.com), January 04, 2000.

Squid won't figure it out so I'll do it for him:

GOLD

-- fubar (foo@bar.com), January 04, 2000.

fubar,

Advance to the head of the class.

-- William R. Sullivan (wrs@wham.com), January 04, 2000.

me: You're short like Fleckenstein! ;)

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), January 04, 2000.

Truth be told, I'm not really short. It was far too painful. But I am absolutely *loaded* with puts (where at least I know the limit of my losses!)

Here's a coded message for the illuminati among us: LSZ LSZ LSZ LSZ LSZ LSZ

-- Me (me@me.me), January 04, 2000.

S&P futures down 6.3 on Globex at 9:30 CST

-- Me (me@me.me), January 04, 2000.