Let's start with the carnage on financial markets around the world.<br />Markets in the U.S., Europe and Asia were slammed on Thursday,... after Apple warned investors its sales were slowing in China,... sparking fears about a slowdown in the world's second largest economy.<br />After Apple's shock revenue-guidance downgrade,... and troubling comments about the economic impact of the U.S.-China trade war from CEO Tim Cook,... the iPhone maker's shares plunged eight percent in after-hours trading.<br />The Dow Jones shed over two-point-8 percent,... with tech heavy NASDAQ plunging over 3-percent.<br />European stocks nosedived as well... with Germany's DAX shedding over one-and-a-half percent.<br />France's CAC 40 dropped more than one-point-six percent.<br />Closer to home,... South Korean stocks plummeted to an over two-year low on the rising fears over a global economic slowdown.<br />The benchmark KOSPI fell 16 points, or zero-point-eight percent, to end at 1,993-point-seven. <br />
