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Major indexes skid at opening after former Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto is killed in a suicide attack.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks opened lower Thursday after former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) and the broader S&P 500 (SPX.X) index both shed nearly 0.5 percent in early trading. The tech-laden Nasdaq (COMPX) was down 0.4 percent.

Bhutto's assassination could cause further political turmoil in Pakistan, a country with nuclear capabilities, and upset world markets, particularly the oil trade.

In economic news, the U.S. Commerce Department said factory orders for November came in lower than expected. And a report showing consumer confidence for December is due out Thursday at 10 am EST.

Also, the government's weekly oil inventory report will be closely watched Thursday. The report will be released at 10:30 am EST.

U.S. light crude oil for January delivery rose 34 cents to $96.31 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Treasury prices rose, with the yield on the 10-year note climbing to 4.20, down from 4.28 on Wednesday. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.

In currency trading, the dollar fell versus the euro and gained against the yen.

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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday outside a large gathering of her supporters where a suicide bomber also killed at least 14, doctors and a spokesman for her party said.


Benazir Bhutto greets her supporters at the rally that was hit by a suicide attack.

While Bhutto appeared to have died from bullet wounds, it was not immediately clear if she was shot or if her wounds were caused by bomb shrapnel.

Police warned citizens to stay home as they expected rioting to break out in city streets as a shocked Pakistan absorbed the news of Bhutto's assassination.

Video of the scene just moments before the explosion showed Bhutto stepping into a heavily-guarded vehicle to leave the rally. Watch aftermath of the attack. »

Police sources told CNN the bomber, who was riding a motorcycle, blew himself up near Bhutto's vehicle.

Bhutto was rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital -- less than two miles from the bombing scene -- where doctors pronounced her dead.

Former Pakistan government spokesman Tariq Azim Khan said while it appeared Bhutto was shot, it was unclear if the bullet wounds to her head and neck were caused by a shooting or if it was shrapnel from the bomb. Watch Benazir Bhutto obituary. »

Bhutto's husband issued a statement from his home in Dubai saying, "All I can say is we're devastated, it's a total shock."

The number of wounded was not immediately known. However, video of the scene showed ambulances lined up to take many to hospitals.

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The attack came just hours after four supporters of former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif died when members of another political party opened fire on them at a rally near the Islamabad airport Thursday, Pakistan police said.

Several other members of Sharif's party were wounded, police said.

Bhutto, who led Paksitan from 1988 to 1990 and was the first female prime minister of any Islamic nation, was participating in the parliamentary election set for January 8, hoping for a third term.

A terror attack targeting her motorcade in Karachi killed 136 people on the day she returned to Pakistan after eight years of self-imposed exile. View timeline. »

CNN's Mohsin Naqvi, who was at the scene of both bombings, said Thursday's blast was not as powerful as that October attack.


Thursday's attacks come less than two weeks after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf lifted an emergency declaration he said was necessary to secure his country from terrorists.

Bhutto had been critical of what she believed was a lack of effort by Musharraf's government to protect her.

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Este atentado é muito pior do que aparenta.
Confirma a ditadura no Paquistão e vai enfurecer os mais radicais. Pode até ser os da mesma facção a provocar a morte da sua lider, para incriminar Musharraf e tentar que abandone o poder.
Mas vai dar mais sange...infelizmente.

[scpnuno]

Apenas o meu tributo a uma Mulher, esposa, mãe, democrata que deu a vida pela liberdade dos outros. Mais uma vida ceifada pela irracionalidade do fundamentalismo.

Talvez agora ela tenha descanso.

[Bala]

La se vai o mito de Democracia em Paquistão. Vamos la ver que tipo de "prevenção" os USA irão utilizar agora, numa potência nuclear.

Isto vai dar sarilho...
O DOW e o S&P já reagiram... -0,50%

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Noticia completa

[The Mechanic]

Benazir Buttho morre em atentado suicida ...

... tanto andaram, tanto andarem que conseguiram matá-la.

Menos uma verdadeira defensora da Democracia no mundo .


Um abraço ,

The Mechanic