Quick Overview

• Greece’s referendum is dead. But the governments future is in doubt.

• Tokyo Electric Power Co. detected signs of nuclear fission at its crippled Fukushima atomic power plant in northern Japan, raising the risk of more radiation leaks. The situation is under control, officials said. (Of course!)
  
   

• (Reuters) MF Global violated requirements that it keep clients’ collateral separate from its own accounts.
• MF Global filed for bankruptcy protection Monday -- more problems for the largely invisible network of ties among institutions around the world? 

• The planet's population has now passed 7 billion.

• The U.S. says its cutting off funding for UNESCO because of the Palestinian membership vote.(Reuters) Israel’s Netanyahu decides to speed up settlement construction in parts of West Bank.

• Taiwan Smartphone maker HTC says its Q3 earnings grew 68% YoY, with shipments reaching 13 million handsets.

• YoY AIA Group’s new business rose 53%

• Britain’s GDP grew 0.5% in Q3 of 2011

• CME's Q3 earnings rose 29 %.

• Bullish reversal on corn.Goldman Sachs To Be Tried By People's Court in Zuccotti Park
  
• Goldman Sachs will be tried this Thursday, November 3, for crimes against the American public. Cornel West, noted civil rights activist, and Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winner, will be among those presiding, and testimony for the prosecution will include individuals who have been directly affected and harmed by the actions of Goldman Sachs. The trial is open to the public, and if you can't make it? Tune in to WBAI (99.5 FM in New York) or online at www.wbai.org this Thursday, from 10 AM to 12 noon, where it will be broadcast live. If the government won't do it? We'll take it into our own hands.