Jim Haysom | This Is Your Life an internet professional in digital advertising

Meltdown on the stock market and in the office

It's been a bloody hot couple of days, and in fact the weekend entertained the hottest day of the year, and the most miserable... England being knocked out of the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa.  More on that once I recover from the shock.

Brushing aside the failure of our national football team against a stronger and more prepared German squad, returning to work yesterday was always going to be tough.

However, 2 days into the working week, and the air conditioning is still yet to be fixed and people are getting a bit sweaty and hot under the cover.  A bit like a portfolio of shares I follow on my iGoogle.

Below shows you what the share price was today, Tuesday 29 June 2010, amongst a set of leading digital brands and companies, agencies and consumer products.  There are some shocking drops from some of them, from the FTSE to the NASDAQ.

At the time of taking this screen grab, Amazon (AMZN) was down 7.94%, Apple (AAPL) down 4.45%, Blinkx (BLNX) down 8.23%, eBay (EBAY) down 4.83%, Google (GOOG) down 3.74%, InterActiveCorp (IACI) down 3.43%, Microsoft (MSFT) down 4.20%, Moneysupermarket.com (MONY) down 2.23%, ValueClick (VCLK) down 6.17% and Yahoo (YHOO) down 4.55%.

What a depressing day for people holding stock in these companies.  I do hope the money men find their confidence again, and we start to see the share prices jump back up.  This economic downturn is not good for anyone.

At least the 10 day weather forecast remains good, warm and sunny in London.

Thank goodness I have bought a portable air conditioner for home!