China's stockmarket has suffered its biggest fall in eight years today, on a day the Chinese media has already dubbed 'Black Monday'.

Good evening. Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

October often makes investors nervous, since that is when some of the biggest crashes in stock market history happened – but this year the market seemed unstoppable.

Gripped by fear of a new recession, the US stock market suffered its worst day since the financial crisis in the fall of 2008.

Wall Street capped another difficult week with steep losses today, sending the major indexes to their lowest levels in more than five years as markets around the world skidded lower on the belief that a punishing economic recession is at hand.

Japan’s prime minister says the US bank bailout is “insufficient” and contributing to a renewed plunge in global stock markets.

London’s FTSE 100 Index today slumped almost 9% to cap the worst week for blue chip shares since “Black Monday” in 1987.

Stock markets worldwide were gripped by fear today as London’s FTSE 100 Index endured its worst week since the Black Monday crash of 1987.

The freefall in world markets continued today as Wall Street opened with more heavy losses.

Panic spread across world markets today as the FTSE 100 Index crashed 10% on fears of a global recession.

A massive sell-off on Wall Street and an escalating global equity crisis sent Asian stocks plunging today, with Japan’s benchmark index in the midst of a gut-wrenching freefall.

The London stock market steadied today as traders attempted to digest yesterday’s dramatic efforts to tackle the global financial crisis.

US President George Bush called British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to urge co-ordination on efforts to solve the financial crisis spreading around the world, the White House said today.

Royal Bank of Scotland shares plunged nearly 40% to a 15-year low today as speculation mounted over an imminent taxpayer-funded rescue of Britain’s banks.

More than £93bn (€119.8bn) was wiped from the value of the UK's biggest companies today as London's FTSE 100 suffered its biggest fall since Black Monday.

Blue chip stocks took a hammering today as Friday’s sharp falls on Wall Street spread to the London market in an echo of the Black Monday crash almost 20 years ago to the day.

Renewed fears regarding the US housing market and the global credit crunch saw the London market grounded in negative territory today.

A wave of selling from nervous investors dragged the FTSE 100 Index into the red today, 20 years on from 1987’s Black Monday stock market collapse.

Fears are mounting today of sharp drops in share prices when the London market opens tomorrow as last week’s falls on Wall Street renewed concerns of a repeat of Black Monday.

Stocks pulled back sharply and bonds jumped today as lacklustre profit reports and unease about the credit markets touched off fresh concerns about the ability of the economy to continue to push ahead.

A GRIEVING community said a tearful final farewell yesterday to two workmates killed in a car crash last Monday.

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