empire of the last century. Anyhow, Asia and a minor Arabic ‘countries’ are willing to take over the deficit of major US banks. This happened almost 25 years after the collapse of communisme. Shortly after the fall of the German-wall the western countries became extremely convinced about their own superiority, hence arrogant. Arrogancy always ends into a disaster. The collapse of the society based on the 2nd world war has come to an end now. I would not be surprised wjen the US army will soon be financially supported by the EU.
With respect to DOW 13.800 and 12.375 the reference is the spreadfor the AEX the closed interval [466,469].