STEVE INSKEEP, Host: NPR's business news starts with the continuing global stocks slide.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, Host: The financial markets indicated the EU debt trouble may be spreading to the much larger economies of Italy and Spain.
Stock prices across Asia nosedived Friday. Major indices were down more than 3 and 4 percent. European stocks also started their day sharply lower. Investors are taking their cue from the U.S., where a broad panic Thursday sent stock prices off a cliff.