Why everything (stock markets) depends on US.. ? Scr#w 'em..
== U.S. recession could be worse than recent downturns http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0563297420080205 The nation's last two recessions, in 1990-1991 and 2001, each lasted for just eight months. But the two downturns that ended in 1975 and 1982, when economic conditions bore some similarities to today, each lasted 16 months, making them the longest recessions since the Great Depression of the 1930s, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the accepted arbiter of U.S. recessions