Quote from riskymove:
While this is certainly ugly action, does anyone smell any hint of short hedgies pressing on the day the US exchanges are closed? I have no idea what the rest of today and tomorrow brings, but the odds for Tuesday morning rate cut must have just increased substantially. It just seems with the cash exchanges not open today, that it was the perfect day to create the maximum fear. Slash overseas markets and futures and give everyone a day to panic because they cannot do anything.