20 questions on the market meltdown

It was another week of worsts:
The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index suffered its worst weekly loss in almost 70 years. The Canadian dollar had its biggest one-day drop in almost 40 years.
As hundreds of billions in bailout money fails to stem investor panic, a look at some of the questions on the minds of consumers [...]

Credit freeze sees small cracks

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Seized-up credit markets began to see the first small signs of easing Friday, but anxiety over the long-term prospects for recovery is keeping lenders mostly sidelined.
The overnight interbank lending rate, known as Libor, fell by half, suggesting that banks are becoming more willing to lend to each other in the very [...]

Toronto stocks dive amid confidence crisis

TORONTO (Reuters) - The main index of the Toronto Stock Exchange plunged almost 5 percent on Thursday as mounting gloom over the state of the economy and the U.S. financial sector sent investors fleeing the market in a broad rout.
The financial sector was the biggest drag on the benchmark, sliding 7.74 percent. The energy and [...]