Times are tough but there's still money out there

So much for the rush of patriotic buying in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the US. Panic, fear and, in some cases let's be honest, greed pushed the world's stock markets into one of their bleakest weeks ever. Dow Jones only missed having its worst-ever week by a whisker ' it was only worse during the depths of the 1933 depression. In the UK, meanwhile, one astute commentator pointed out it only need another 38 days like last week for the FTSE100 index to hit zero. Given the cocktail of emotions that followed the attack on the World Trade Center, perhaps it might be right to...