How many points will the DOW drop in first 15 minutes of opening on Monday, 10/13/08?

Settlement will be based on the lowest point the Dow is as of 9:46 AM EDT, compared to Friday's close of 8451.19. If the Dow's lowest point is in positive territory, the question will settle as 0-100.00 since it has not dropped.

Asian and European stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears that the global financial crisis would depress world economic growth.

A man monitors stock market prices in Taipei October 6, 2008. Taiwan stocks dropped 4.12 percent on...
A man monitors stock market prices in Taipei October 6, 2008. Taiwan stocks dropped 4.12 percent on Monday to a more than four-year closing low, with financial shares including Cathay Financial leading the decline as the global economic outlook darkened.
(Pichi Chuang/AP Photo)Investors took scant comfort from Washington's passage of a US$700 billion plan to buy bad assets from banks and other institutions to shore up the financial industry on Friday because of the uncertainty still hanging over the details of the deal and the degree to which it will help.

Britain's benchmark stock index, the FTSE 100, lost 220.11 to 4,760.14 — a 4.42 percent fall. The declines were led by the banking industry, with the mining and oil industries also suffering drops. HBOS PLC's share price dropped 15.7 percent, while the Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC fell 13.6 percent.

Germany's DAX index fell 4.22 percent to 5,552.27. France's CAC-40 index dropped 4.85 percent to 3,882.81. In Russia, the RTS stock index tumbled more than 7 percent in first 20 minutes of trading.