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Regulators halt stock trading in emerging-market exchanges. Is this for real? Further turmoil, instability and more less of everything (cash, investments, credit) is the emerging markets world’s response to greedy Wall Street today.

Fannie and Freddie – it sounds like the title of happy Disney family movie, but yet to many these two names are the equivalent of a horror film they do not necessarily want to watch.

The global credit crunch is now taking a bite of office lease rents. The mortgage meltdown is finally reaching its tentacles into commercial real estate both in the US and in the UK.

Investment banks and other financial institutions have been bombarding the world with losses reports for the past several months.

When the numbers do the talk… see below a list of the most important equity indices from around the world…

Reuters reported that the global credit crisis will chop 16% of this year’s bonus payouts in the City of London. However, it seems like the credit crunch has just started sinking its teeth into the markets.