Investors world-wide are searching for the bottom as almost $8 trillion have been erased from the global stock markets in the past two weeks. The nose-dive continues this morning as Asian markets opened in a free-fall before stabilizing a bit and closing with losses ranging from two to five percent. European markets are stumbling again and it looks to be a precarious day on Wall Street.
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