Sydney opens at 5pm east coast time and will be the first big test of the G7/G20 and Bush's meetings from this weekend.....Tokyo opens at 7pm....
There is a simple and easy to read webpage of that area here...
http://money.cnn.com/...
which will let you follow what happens as the sun rises around the world.
Australia, over the weekend, has promised to back all bank deposits regardless of size and is putting 4b aussie dollars into stabilizing their floundering mortgage market.
http://www.news.com.au/...
I am a firm believer that most of us never wanted to know this much about markets and inter-country relationships. However, the past 8 years of US government allowing pensions to be stopped and insistence of moving money into the 401k system has brought this on...thank goodness Bushco did not get Social Security into the market as he and McSame wanted.