LONDON (AP) -- World stock markets slumped again today with the Nikkei index in Japan closing at its lowest in 26 years as the financial crisis drove up the yen, piling the pressure on the country's exporters.

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"Asian markets soared for a second day Tuesday, led by a stunning 13 percent jump in Tokyo, after Wall Street rallied from its worst week ever on optimism that government rescue efforts will heal the crippled global financial system.

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The dollar's slide deepened to a 3-year low against the yen on Monday, and Asian stocks fell, with Tokyo's Nikkei shedding 4 percent, burdened by growing fears about a U.S. recession and more writedowns in the financial sector.

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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Many of the poorest people in the United States are still struggling to recover from the effects of a recession that ended six years ago, making them very vulnerable as the country stands on the brink of a new downturn. ADVERTISEMENT

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While global investors appear to have welcomed the Fed's dramatic move, some investors cautioned that it seemed like a panic decision.

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Japan hasn't been a good call so far, but MoneyWeek editor Merryn Somerset Webb isn't going to abandon it. Why? Because it's cheap by any measure you care to use - and it could be one of this year's few investment safe havens.

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Who is driving the stock markets

Stock markets around the world are making news highs almost everyday. Everything, from Dow Jones to the Nikkei, is up. But this recent upsurge in the world markets has come as surprise for many citing the poor sub prime data from the US.

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Market Update

The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished 52 points up at 12,773 today with 20 or the 30 components advancing. It topped its all time closing high of 12,786 and approached its intraday high of 12,795.

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Livedoor scandal introduces a new kind of superheroe.

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The Nikkei share average fell over 4 percent on Wednesday after the Tokyo bourse said it would suspend trading of all shares listed on the world's second-largest stock market if the number of trades exceeds its system's capacity.

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A stampede of sell orders forced the shut-down of the world's second-biggest bourse on Wednesday as investors fled the Tokyo stock market, spooked by fallout from an investigation into Internet company Livedoor Co..

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Investors spooked by a raid on an Internet company and weaker U.S. tech earnings dumped Japanese shares Wednesday, sending the Nikkei plunging and prompting the Tokyo Stock Exchange to suspend trading on the world's second-largest market.

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A typo costs a brokerage firm £128m in Japan.

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Wow... A Japanese brokerage firm sold 610,000 shares of a stock for 1 yen. They meant to sell 1 share for 610,000 yen. That's a bad day for somebody.

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