Bloomberg reports Asian markets have opened down about 2.25%

[originalpckelly]

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks/wei_region3.html

Story being reported mainly by Bloomberg TV, but you can see the data at that address.

[originalpckelly]

1. As you can well see, China and Japan are doing better...

but South Korea, Australia and New Zealand are all down 2.25%.

That's really still a lot in a single session, though we've become used to seeing much larger drops/pops in the last few weeks.