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Now please enjoy the show. You're going to be here. Hello and welcome to the DSR daily in which we try to look at what's going on around the world and make some sense of it.

I'm David Rothkoff, one of your hosts, joined by your other hosts.

Riley Fessler, how are you doing Riley?

Pretty good.

And Minnestine, how are you this morning, Minna? I'm well.

Excellent. So Riley, why don't you kick us off? A lot's going on in the world.

Yeah, a lot of not good either.

Global stock markets have experienced significant declines today with Japan's

Nikk 225 index plummeting by 4,451.28 points. A 12.4% drop marking its largest single day fall

ever, closing at 3.458.42 points.

Other Asian markets also saw substantial losses.

South Korea's Cosby dropped by 8.77%, Taiwan's Thai X by by 8.35 Australia's S&P 200 by 3.7, Hong Kong's Hangs

Hangs'eng by 1.46 and China's Shanghai composite by 1.54%. European markets mirrored this trend with approximately 2% drops in early trading and London's FTSE 100 fell over 1.5% reaching its lowest in over three months.

These declines followed a two-day route on Wall Street triggered by disappointing U.S. economic data and underwhelming earnings reports from major tech companies.

Yeah, and there's some concern that there's a misalignment between Fed policies and the state of the economy right now. We've got to watch and see, you know, this

Japan loss is the biggest ever and if it continues and knocks the U.S. markets for a few days or we enter into a bare market period.

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