A businessman walks past the New York Stock Exchange before the start of trading Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008 in New York. World stock markets swooned again Tuesday as global financial crisis make investors worry that asset prices had yet to hit rock bottom. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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European markets slide on Lehman, Merrill woes

AP - 12 minutes ago

PARIS - World stock markets swooned again Tuesday as the global financial crisis caused investors to worry that asset prices have yet to hit rock bottom.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a rally at the Colorado State Fair Grounds in Pueblo, Colo., Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

As markets reel, the blame game begins

Politico - 2 hours, 50 minutes ago

Wall Street is now at the mercy of Washington.

A Cowboy attempts to round up cattle from receding flood waters along Gulfway drive, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008, Near High Island, Texas. Several cattle were lost following the land fall of Hurricane Ike and those that survived were being rounded up and taken to a nearby fresh watering hole where they were also being fed. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Ike survivors may wait weeks for hot meals, baths

AP - 34 minutes ago

HOUSTON - Tens of thousands of residents first hunkered down to wait for Hurricane Ike's brutal punch. Those survivors on the wrecked Texas coast must now wait again — for food, water and ice, for the electricity to return to their homes, for that first hot meal and shower.

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