The Belgian-Dutch banking and insurance group Fortis is seeing its shares slumping for the second day in a row, off around 9.5% (down nearly 20% in last two sessions.) There are ongoing questions surrounding the groups’ financial health, with one recent rumour having them turning to Rabobank for liquidity (which Rabobank has denied.) Back with the markets there is little real clear direction with trading choppy. EUR/USD has recovered to around 1.4600 at writing, having earlier sold off to 1.4565/70. Market seemingly on hold awaiting developments on the U.S. bailout.