Portal:Current events/2009 March 2
March 2, 2009 (Monday)
- United States President Barack Obama nominates Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services. (AP via MSNBC)
- Late 2000s recession:
- Consumer spending in the U.S. rose in January after six successive monthly declines. (AP via MSNBC)
- American International Group announces a loss of US$61.7 billion for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008. (Dow Jones via CNNMoney)[permanent dead link]
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls below 7,000 for the first time since 1997. (MarketWatch)
- Sweden's IF Metall trade union agrees to reductions in wages and working time by maximums of 20 percent. (IHT)
- A winter storm in the eastern United States cancels 1,000 flights and cuts hundreds of thousands of people's electricity. (Reuters via News Daily)
- President João Bernardo Vieira of Guinea-Bissau is assassinated in Bissau. (BBC)
- Palestinians accuse Israel of planning ethnic cleansing in Bustan, East Jerusalem. (Sky News)
- North Korea's and the United Nations' military commands meet in South Korea for the first time since 2002. (Reuters)
- Two thousand Tamil people have been killed and 5,000 injured in Vanni District during Sri Lanka's civil war. (AP) (BBC)