Oct, 22 The price of the oil basket (OPEC) fell to $60 a barrel.
Oct, 17 World oil prices fell below $70 a barrel.
Oct, 6 The capitalization of the world stock exchanges fell by 2.5 trillion dollars.
World Financial Events
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7
TOKYO - Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting (final day). Release of monthly economic report (06:00 GMT).
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks before a luncheon of the National Association for Business Economics 2008 Annual Meeting (16:00 GMT)
LUXEMBOURG - Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) meeting.
LUXEMBOURG - EU economic and financial ministers meeting.
SYDNEY- Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board meeting and interest rate decision - (00:30 GMT)
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8
LONDON - Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting, (to Oct. 9).
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9
LONDON - Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) announces interest rate decision (11:00 GMT)
FRANKFURT - ECB publishes its monthly Bulletin (08:00 GMT)
GENEVA - Swiss National Bank (SNB) Quarterly Bulletin (09:00 GMT)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10
TOKYO - Bank of Japan to publish minutes of Sept. 16-17 monetary policy meeting (23:50 GMT on Oct. 9).
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13
WASHINGTON - 2008 Annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14
GENEVA - World Trade Organisation (WTO) General Council meeting (to Oct 15).
MEMPHIS - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard gives speech to Memphis Economic Club (00:30 GMT Oct. 15).
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15
NEW YORK - (INVITED) Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks before the Economic Club of New York.
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve to release periodic Beige Book survey of U.S. economic conditions.
