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Global stock markets plunge
HONG KONG. Oct 28: The world's stock markets collapsed today as the shockwaves from ,i crash on Wall Street slammed into Asia's battered bourses and then ricocheted back into Europe. report agencies.
The battered Hong Kong stock market suffered its worst one-day losses since 1989 and London shares tumbled to their steepest point losses in history.
Ilie worldwide panic-selling was even worse than analysts had predicted, leaving many traders Just hoping they could ride out the turbulence that began last week with a speculative assault on Hong Kong's currency.
Hong Kong led the Asian rout, plummeting 13.7 per cent, after New York's Dow Jones in-
dex of 30 leading industrials dived 7.18 per cent and forced US trading to be halted 30 minutes ahead of schedule.
Shortly after the start of trading in Europe. London had dived 8.36 per cent. Paris seven per cent. Frankfurt 11 per cent and Amsterdam 8.7 per cent. Russian trading was suspended for three hours because of sharp drops.
Wall Street's 554.26-point slump to 7,161.15 points was the biggest fall in points on record and the sharpest in percentage terms since the 22 per cent Black Monday" crash, whose 10th anniversary was marked on October 19.
The US slump, blamed on the 5.8 per cent decline in Hong Kong on Friday that unnerved American investors already worried about the heady heights of US stock prices, boomeranged on Asia before returning to Europe.
Japanese Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka said the sharp falls in global stock markets "can be termed as crashes."
Markets in the Asian region, already battered by months of currency turmoil and sharp falls In Hong Kong which has lost 40 per cent of its value this month, suffered a bloodbath.
By the close of trade, Tokyo had slumped 4.3 per cent to its lowest since July 25. 1995. New Zealand was down 12.5 per cent. Taiwan 5.9 per cent. South Korea 6.1 per cent. Australia 7.2 per cent, the Philippines 6.3 per cent. Singapore 7.6 per cent and Malaysia 6.6 per cent.
In morning trade alone, Thailand dropped 5.4 per cent, Indonesia 6.4 per cent and China's Shanghai market 6.8 per cent.
Thailand is widely blamed for triggering the Asian financial turmoil that has swept the region since it floated the Baht on July 2 and brokers said the fall had shattered hopes the market had already hit the bottom.
Tokyo's close on the Nikkei stock average of 225 selected issues — down 725.67 points at 16,312.69 — was the lowest for the key index since July 25. 1995.
Analysts said the chain-reaction sell-offs could continue because of investor panic and because the New York market had been viewed as overvalued for a long time.
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