International Equity Markets on Martin Luther King Day

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If you are in the United States, we know that you didn’t go the bank, the post office, any government office, court houses, and you probably didn’t trade.  While you were enjoying your day off from market trading in the U.S. for Martin Luther King Day , the rest of the world was steady at work.  We have compiled a snapshot of the Monday trading levels for the major stock exchanges and the international markets were as follows:

ASIA:

  • Nikkei225     10,855.08 -127.02 (-1.15%)
  • Hang Seng     21,460.01 -194.15 (-0.90%)
  • Shanghai Comp 3,237.10  -12.95 (-0.40%)
  • Straits Times 2,912.02 +3.60 (+0.12%)

EUROPE:

  • FTSE 5,494.39 +39.02 (+0.72%)
  • DAX   5,918.55 +42.58 (+0.72%)
  • CAC   3,977.46 +23.08 (+0.58%)

AMERICAS:

  • BOVESPA      69,400.93 +422.63 (+0.61%)
  • S&P TSX Comp 11,750.54  +65.17 (+0.56%)

-The 24/7 Wall St. Team (Jan. 18, 2010)

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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