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I didnt think much about swine flu when the news broke over the weekend and was therefore surprised at the weakness in Asian equities yesterday and even more surprised when the US markets (which are much closer to the Swine flu problem) only fell modestly overnight. The Dow and Nasdaq were actually in positive territory in early trading before closing lower by 51 to 8025.
Intra-day chart of Dow
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