what would happen if the US market was opened? was this planned this way?
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21 Jan 2008 Global stock markets plunged on Monday as fears spread that the turmoil in United States mortgage markets is spreading. Indexes in Europe fell as much as 7 percent after a huge sell-off in Asia. "There's something approaching panic in the market," Holger Schmieding, the chief European economist at Bank of America in London, said by telephone.(visit the link for the full news article)