Thursday, July 17, 2008

Stone pelting at the Karachi stock exchange...

Though markets worldwide have crashed because of the rise in oil prices, inflationary pressures and a whole lot of reasons, no other country has seen investors pelting stones and breaking windows of their own stock exchange (Bloomberg reported today that Pakistani investors smashed windows of the Karachi stock exchange to protest the worst fall). Indian investors, on the other hand, would rather down a quarter of rum (whisky is getting too expensive) or worse still, some idiots will try to hang themselves or throw themselves off the 30th floor of the building...