European debt crisis live: Markets fall as optimism fades
Oct 31st, 2011 | By | Category: Analysis• Financial markets are falling on Monday as the initial euphoria over last week’s euro bailout deal peters out • Today’s agenda 8.52am: MF Global , the financial derivatives broker, is fighting for survival this morning. The company spent the weekend desperately trying to find a buyer for some of its assets, but so far today there is no sign of a deal. More than 700 people work for MF Global in London – Robert Peston, the BBC’s business editor, reckons that some of them have sent home this morning: @Peston : MF Global collapse first serious US victim of eurozone debt crisis
