Quick Overview

• The U.S. Government agreed to stabilize Citigroup by guaranteeing $306 billion in troublesome assets. It also gave Citi $20 billion in exchange for preferred stock.
  

• The National Association of Realtors said Home resale’s fell to a 4.98 million annual rate, a 3.1% decrease from September's revised figure.
  The median-sales price declined to $183,300.

• Industrial new orders in the Euro area fell 3.9% in September. YoY orders fell 1.1%.
  

• YoY GDP in Chile rose 4.1%
  

• Consumer confidence in Canada dropped further in November to a fresh 26-year low, the Conference Board of Canada said.
  

• Hungarian central bank cut its base rate by 50 bps to 11%
  

• The USDA said there were 10.97 million head of cattle on feed as of November 1st, down 6.8% YoY.
  

• The USDA said frozen pork supplies at the end of October were up 4% YoY
  

• The terminal operator of China's Cosco Group, said throughput increased 14.1 % in October, but fell 8.5 % at its Cosco-HIT facility in Hong Kong.

• In the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine, Bernanke has recognized he was wrong to believe there would be limited fallout to financial markets from the US housing market's collapse.