Stocks Posted Modest Weekly Losses after Wild Ride (AAPL, BAC, C, COF, CSCO ...

For the week, the blue chip index fell 1.53%; the S&P 500 Index lost 1.72% and the NASDAQ dropped 0.96%.

At the start of the week, stocks plunged on a market rout, posting the worst single session decline since the credit crisis, with the Dow tumbling more than 600 points. Participants fled from risky assets following the S&P downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, which added uncertainty and fear to the ongoing economic jitters. Meanwhile, Gold surged to all-time high and U.S. Treasuries ironically climbed, lowering the 10-year Treasury bill yield to new lows.

In Asia, equity markets were hit hard as confidence in the global economic recovery wane amid S&P downgrading the U.S. credit rating on political risks and rising debt burden. Shanghai was among the hardest hit falling 3.8%, while Hong Kong and the Nikkei fell 2.2%.

In Europe, stocks tumbled to their lowest level in nearly 2-years amid concern the economy will slip into a recession after the S&P first ever downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, while early optimism over ECB intervention on Italian and Spanish bonds faded.

Losses accelerated with the Dow plunging 605 points after S&P added to woes downgrading Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Federal Home Loan Bank's debt to AA+ from AAA and after President Obama’s speech did little to reassure the markets.

However the market was able to bounce off the lows as Moody’s also reiterated its credit rating in the U.S. and as S&P said that U.S. corporations rated AAA, will not be affected. But the attempt to rally from the lows faded with the market closing into the lows of the session.

All of the S&P 500 sectors were sold aggressively, with financials, energy, and materials posting the biggest declines, while healthcare and consumer staples posting the smallest declines.

[SB] Lost Souls 1980 (CAT III) - Hong Kong Movie (Torrent Download ...

This Shaw Brothers production, produced in 1980, bears the admirable hallmarks of Mous' later work. The action is well staged, the set-ups are creatively photographed, and the pacing is brisk. There is a solidity and sharpness present in the work of this fine director that places him in the top ten per cent of exploitation masters. He has more in common with Japanese pinku directors such as Teruo Ishii than his Hong Kong contemporaries such as King Hu, Chang Cheh and Jimmy Wang Yu. His art is gruesome, extreme and almost fetishistic in its intensity. The "lost souls" of this cinematic bad dream are a ragged group of male and female refugees who find themselves shackled in a makeshift prison run by a bisexual warden and his rape-loving cohorts. The women, in particular, are subjected to a Marquis de Sade-approved catalog of abuse and torture. The male of the species doesn't get off lightly, either; one character is graphically sodomized with an intensity that is rare for any Hong Kong film, let alone one greenlit by Run-Run Shaw (bless his adventurous hide!). There is a surplus of lurid nudity (I'm not complaining, mind you) and much bloodshed and general nastiness. Everything is lovingly lensed in appropriately grotty locations and Mous never gets shy about his more extreme depictions or the sexualization of the abuse. In fact, it's quite clear that Mous revels in the sadistic excesses of this less-than-cheerful exercise and I, for one, respect him for it. I wasn't born in English so I don't have an english speaking mind ... and I will think about "selling" my future ups. Given credit to everyone different taste and interests in films most will be good ...

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