In the US tonight, approaching the official close, the Dow was down 212.65 points
at 12,964.14, while the S&P500 was off 25.09 points at 1,433.65 and the Nasdaq
Composite was 42.21 points lower at 2,595.03.
In Asia today, the Hang Seng ended the morning down 757.38 points at 26,702.79,
while the Nikkei was recently down 1.6% at 14,807.43.
In early morning trade, New York's main oil contract, light sweet crude for January
delivery was 26 cents down at $94.38 a barrel from $94.64 in US trades Monday.