High-speed slide

摘要

America may have been the epicentre of the global financial earthquake but it still boasts the world's deepest and most liquid capital markets, unparalleled when it comes to nurturing young companies. But for how much longer? This week, as bulls cheered the Dow Jones Industrial Average touching a 13-month high, they were forced to digest a sobering report from Grant Thornton, an accounting firm, on the structure of America's stockmarkets.