lankan court has issued an order preventing mahendra rajapaksa from acting as prime minister until the legitimacy of his appointment has been reviewed. south asian country plunged into political credit crisis in october when the government sacked the former prime minister and put rajapaksa in his place. mexico s new leftist government has put the presidential airliner up for sale the boeing seven hundred eighty seven dreamliner is one of sixty government planes the government intends to sell and officials said the sale showed the new administration was making spending and savings a priority. well this year india passed some of the toughest anti plastic laws in the world with prime minister narendra modi vowing to abolish single use plastic by the year twenty twenty two now it is a challenge being taken very seriously ill leave by mum by recently right by the
negative for 2018 and at the nasdaq was worst of the bunch, losing 329, almost 4.5%. the largest one-day percentage decline since august 18, 2011. let s get some analysis of the market today. deirdre bolton of the fox news network joins us. wish there was better news toda today. indeed. you gave reasons as to why we saw this pressure so dell, s&p 500 and the red for the year as you alluded to, and the nasdaq, the steepest decline in that index is on pace for its worst month since the credit crisis, which is never a good comparison, in october 2008. facebook, amazon, netflix, alphabet google, each closing down by more than 5%. much of america is delivering solid earnings but investors are anxious about two key factors. rising interest rates which
break. she did get our base energized. i love her. she did hold her own against a 35-year member of the senate, joe biden. nice to meet you. hey, can i call you joe? you can call me joe. what i didn t get was how the media just skewered her. she became fodder for everything. and i thought that was terribly unfair. people, in my view are not kind to sarah palin. questions? senator mccain reporter: despite the media frenzy, the mccain/palin ticket was holding its own, until five weeks before the election. we were, according to our polls, basically running even or slightly ahead the day that the stock market went down 700 points. crisis on wall street. one of the biggest banking failures in u.s. history. reporter: september 29, 2008. the credit crisis worsened overnight. reporter: economic panic. this is absolutely stunning. reporter: big banks were
stock market went down 700 points. crisis on wall street. one of the biggest banking failures in u.s. history. reporter: september 29, 2008. the credit crisis worsened overnight. reporter: economic panic. this is absolutely stunning. reporter: big banks were failing. the house rejects the financial bailout plan. at the end of that day, we were seven points down. as americans watched their 401(k)s disappear before their eyes. reporter: for the second time in his campaign, john mccain threw a hail mary. i ll suspend my campaign and return to washington. i m an old navy pilot and i know when a crisis calls for all hands on deck. reporter: reporters and analysts were skeptical. the market appears to be melting down, threatening to bring john mccain s campaign with it. i would point out that barack obama came back to washington, too. he didn t say he suspended
wall street is bracing for another possible victim of the housing and credit crisis. lehman brothers, one of the largest and oldest brokerage firms in the country, has been experiencing what many fear is a slow death, because of the demise of bear stearns in april. there had been rumblings, if bear went down, lehman would be in trouble. and dick fuld, their ceo, had been warned, you may be next. hank paulson said, you might want to find a partner. get somebody with a bigger balance sheet. and fuld had dismissed those as absurd and unnecessary. wall street is on-edge after a weekend of talks and rescuing the struggling lehman brothers investment bank. banks and federal officials,