Quick Overview

• OWS Sign: "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one"

• Bloomberg: European leaders have one week to settle differences and flesh out a strategy to terminate their sovereign debt crisis as global finance chiefs warn failure to do so would endanger the world economy.

• The U.S. federal government registered a 1.299 trillion U.S. dollars budget deficit for the 2011 fiscal year ending September.

• The Eurozone trade deficit stood at 3.4 billion Euros (4.7 billion U.S. dollars) in August.
• Annual inflation in the Eurozone stood at 3.0% in September.