In Asian Stock Markets, Anxiety Over IMF Charges - Wall Street Journal (blog)

By WSJ Staff

By Alex Frangos

Asian markets headed lower Monday, which, following the down market in U.S. on Friday, normally wouldn't be that much of a surprise.

But there is extra anxiety in the air with the arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual-assault charges in New York . As European WSJ reporters Charles Forelle and Stephen Fidler wrote, Mr. Strauss-Kahn was on his way to important meetings in Europe to resolve the increasingly precarious debt crisis in Greece. DSK, as Mr. Strauss-Kahn is known among the cognoscenti, has been an advocate for the International Monetary Fund's role in bailing out troubled European economies of Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

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