Posted on 09/18/2005 11:45:50 AM PDT by anymouse
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?siteid=mktw&dist=nwham&guid=%7BEB079F53%2D81A0%2D4419%2DB9DB%2D88FE635355F9%7D
Euro, DAX fall after election deadlock
By Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch
Last Update: 11:51 AM ET Sept. 19, 2005
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The euro tumbled against the dollar and the German stock market declined Monday after both Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats claimed the right to form a governing coalition in parliamentary elections in Germany.
The euro recently was down at $1.2149 vs. $1.2235 on Friday, reaching a seven-month low, and the German DAX 30 stock market index ended 1.2% lower at 4,926, and had dropped earlier as low as 4,872.
Figures suggest Merkel's CDU/CSU only won only a three-seat majority, 225-222, over the SPD in Germany's lower house. See story.
Both Merkel and Schroeder on Sunday night claimed the right to govern Europe's largest economy.
Analysts said markets were reacting to both the paralysis and the weak mandate for economic reforms.
I guess socialist Democrats are the same worldwide.
http://blog.democrats.com/node/3541
Do a search for "Piss on Bush"
2:01 Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks widen losses; oil prices higher, Fed looms
1:57 Gold futures close near an 18-year high
1:54 Economic Report: U.S. homebuilders index falls to 2-year low
1:53 Gold futures close at highest level in almost 18 years
Laaaaaaadeeeeeeeeeeeeeees and Gentlemen! We have a WINNER!!!
SORE SHROEDERMAN!!!
Hay Grampa! Everybudy knows the Left NEVER loses!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!
They can't win elections honestly around the world and in America, so they have these Nazi challenge teams just like their Uncle Adolph did to "win" elections in Germany in the 1930's after they really lost the elections.
What on earth are you on about? The election was fair but brought no satisfactory result. What's this guff about Nazis?
Not until they recount Ohio ...
"When you have a son coming of military age, this makes it even more important to vote for a government that isn't eager to go to war," said Stefan Deutscher, a 38-year-old business consultant voting in Berlin.
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The mental miasma which will doom Western civilization.
Honor, duty, Country is all but gone from the lexicon.
sp (Sheehan pandemic)!
The Grampa is speaking the illustratable truth! Sit back and watch while he draws you some educational pictures to improve your understanding of the politico-economics of the situation!
Watchout Grampa! Here comes another "old european" tryin ta "explain" things to ya!!!
"the family was unlucky and stayed poor all through the 50s, and was the German equivalent of "white trash". But he worked his way up out of poverty by sheer hard work and ambition"
As Jefferson would say," I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
I consider your reference to "white trash" offensive.
sp
Sure I'm an old European! I live here, never intend to leave it, and know a lot about its history, culture and politics.
I await with interest your pearls of American wisdom, especially about the NSDAP. Use simple words, please (ones you can spell).
LOL!
Sorry, didn't know it was an offensive rather than a descriptive term.
I did not lose the election!
You can say that again.
Don't worry, Jerry. You've got a future, of sorts. algore proved it. (How do you say "moveon" in German?)
3:12 Natural gas closes at a record; crude up 7%
3:04 Crude futures close at a more than two-week high atop $67
3:04 Oct crude climbs $4.39, or 7%, to close at $67.39/brl
3:04 Oct unleaded gas ends at $2.0427/gal, up 14.4%
3:00 Natural-gas futures close at an all-time high
They got polytickle problems, but we's got GAS PAINS!!!
You're not a Nevell Chamberlain trust fund baby, are ya?
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