Europe Markets Brief
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10.10.08,
2:10 PM ET
A roller coaster week for European markets ended up with all the region's indexes dropping into a hole at the close on Friday, as panic about the world's faltering economy sparked a sell-off across the board.
The Dow Jones Euro Stoxx index of 50 leading shares tumbled 7.9%, [...]
Wall Street finally got what it had been demanding all week, a financial rescue package, but by the time the gavel fell in Washington on Friday, investors had turned their attention to other problems in the economy.
On Monday, the House of Representatives rejected a
for the nation’s financial system, causing the Dow Jones industrial [...]