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We seem to be seeing a lot of these stories anymore: A Hong Kong cargo ship loaded with 36,000 tonnes of wheat bound for Iran was hijacked on Tuesday by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, near the Yemeni coast. The latest example of piracy came as a Saudi supertanker, seized by pirates on Monday […]

With an hour until the opening bell things are shaping up for a bad day. Dow futures are already off 500 points. Other news: – Japan’s Nikkei stock closed 5.7% down – Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index down 8.7% – Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 0.69 percent, – Germany’s DAX index lost 2.55 percent and – […]