Black Tuesday: The Asian Stock Rout In Pictures

Needless to say, the carnage in Asia that began at the open on Tuesday morning did not abate and by the time it was all said and done, it was a massacre. And the thing is, we don't need to try when it comes to the hyperbole because simply stating what actually happened is hyperbolic enough, a state of affairs that underscores how bad things really were. After a rough open documented here, the Nikkei closed lower by nearly 5%, bringing the two-day decline to a harrowing 7.2%. Here's some perspec