RNPS Images of the Year 2008: Business (1)
2008-12-11 08:59:12 GMT2008-12-11 16:59:12 (Beijing Time)
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A graph showing the performance of the FTSE 100 shares is seen through the spectacles of a computer user in Manchester, northern England, October 15, 2008. Britain's top share index lost 7.2 percent ending a two-day rally, as commodity stocks slumped amid growing fears of global recession. The FTSE 100 ended down 314.6 points at 4,079.6, erasing a big chunk of the near 12 percent rebound seen in the previous two sessions after plummeting 21 percent last week, its second worst weekly fall on reco
Members of an Italian business delegation sit on top of the bull, the symbol for strong stock market business, outside the Frankfurt stock exchange, October 14, 2008. [Agencies]
A man walks past stock market monitors in Taipei October 13, 2008. Taiwan stocks fell 3 percent on Monday in resumed trade after a long holiday weekend to a more than five-year low, but new rules were announced over the weekend limiting daily drops in stock prices to 3.5 percent. [Agencies]
A woman demonstrates in front of Swiss bank UBS headquarters in Zurich Noverber 15, 2008, during a protest against the Confederation's rescue plan for country's banks. [Agencies]
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (L) and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke (R) testify before the House Financial Services Committee about the credit market turmoil and the government economic bailout on Capitol Hill in Washington September 24, 2008. [Agencies]
A graph showing the performance of the FTSE 100 shares is seen through the spectacles of a computer user in Manchester, northern England, October 15, 2008. Britain's top share index lost 7.2 percent ending a two-day rally, as commodity stocks slumped amid growing fears of global recession.
The FTSE 100 ended down 314.6 points at 4,079.6, erasing a big chunk of the near 12 percent rebound seen in the previous two sessions after plummeting 21 percent last week, its second worst weekly fall on record.