A private meeting of Opec leaders, gathered this weekend in Riyadh for the cartel's third meeting in its 47-year history, had just been broadcast to the world's media for more than half an hour after a technician had mistakenly plugged the TV feed into the wrong socket.

<p>Analysis ranging from the Bear Stearn&#39;s incident (and its future) to how the derivative market is tied in with the mortgage market, primarily subprime mortgage market.</p>

The U.S. economy grew at its weakest pace since 2003 in the fourth quarter while inflation rose, the U.S. government reported Friday, sending the dollar to a record low against the euro and fanning concerns of an accelerating slowdown.

Chinese Central Bank is under pressure to sell some foreign capital reserves to pay for domestic programs. However, if they sold dollars to buy yuan to invest in the country, it would increase the value of the yuan and decrease the value of the dollar. This would hurt their exports.