Asian shares drop as Putin orders troops to east Ukraine

@Eastman: Many other financial products moved because of this news. Why do you think otherwise, or does your intelligence not compute past possible war? Whether you think Putin is wrong or right is your personal view, but he is the single reason for the moves is various instruments the last two days.

I could never understand why a negative figure is written in green, while a positive one is in red.

Usually green is good & red is bad.

I could never understand why a negative figure is written in green, while a positive one is in red.

That’s only a question of definition or interpretation. They also have different water faucets directions, the door locks are opened or closed otherwise and building stairs are outside, not inside. Just tell yourself, when it’s red, then it’s an alarm to buy more and if it’s green, or maybe called blue like they also call the green traffic lights blue, then leave the stocks untouched and wait for recovery. However, make the best out of it. lol

then leave the stocks untouched and wait for recovery.

That's the time to buy more!

At least there are no more mean tweets!

Western powers fear Russia might use skirmishes in Ukraine's eastern regions as a pretext for an attack on the democracy

It’s not so much democracy in modern Ukraine. Eastern (with Russian population) regions of this country come back to Russia… it’s not about democracy…

               Imagine: Korean and Japanese people living together in one state… Not a very good situation?

 The same thing for “Ukraine”. Nobody in Russia has any interest for Ukrainian regions of Ukraine. Ex-Soviet borders, ex-Soviet problems.

"...the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo was down 477.52 points at 26,433.46..."

The English-reporting media quote the stock average correctly in points; however the Japanese media report the index in yen, as ￥26,433 yen 46 sen...

My guess is that Putin is losing it. Russia has never been a country where disenthroned leaders are treated kindly (name me one). A foreign adventure may be his last chance. On the other hand - how did Afghanistan go? (Not well, for anybody.)

Russia has never been a country where disenthroned leaders are treated kindly (name me one).

Gorbachev, Malenkov and Khrushchev managed to stay not killed after they were booted out. I believe the only 3 Soviet leaders never to die in office.

That said Malenkov was exiled to a dreary --stan and Kruschev imprisoned in a dacha.

I think it was Peter The Great who once promised to drag Russia kicking and screaming into the 17th century. Hopefully one day they'll get there.

Very normal.

Is it just me, or is WWIII about to start?

CleppityClop - " managed to stay not killed" - that made my day! Reminds me of the movie, "The Death of Stalin."