World Recession / Global Slowdown
Markets around the world are falling. This could be the first time that so many countries have slid into recession at the same time. The United States has been in a recession for the past year. Great Britain announced that it, too, had fallen into recession. In Korea, Samsung posted its first ever quarterly loss. Japan’s Sony saw its first quarterly loss in fourteen years. Canada went from predicting a positive GNP to revising the projection to a recession. Even China is seeing a slowdown with growth going into the single digits for the first time in many years.