{"id":6436,"date":"2007-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"markets-plunge-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2007\/markets-plunge-around-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Markets plunge around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Times Online- London&#8217;s leading blue-chip stocks sank to levels not seen in nearly a year today, on the back of heavy selling overnight in the United States and Asia after the credit crunch sparked  fresh concern.<\/p>\n<p>  The benchmark FTSE 100 index lost 167.6 points, or 2.7 per cent, to 5,941.7 in mid-morning deals, taking it below the 6,000 level for the first time since last October.<\/p>\n<p>  Today&#8217;s fall means that the index, which measures changes in the value of the country&#8217;s 100 largest companies, has lost nearly 11.5 per cent of its value in the space of a month.<\/p>\n<p>  The magnitude of the fall is likely to raise fresh fears of a prolonged bear market, the description for a market in which share prices are falling.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/markets\/japan\/article2269742.ece\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online- London&#8217;s leading blue-chip stocks sank to levels not seen in nearly a year today, on the back of heavy selling overnight in the United States and Asia after the credit crunch sparked fresh concern. The benchmark FTSE 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}