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21 Jan 2008 Global stock markets plunged on Monday as fears spread that the turmoil in United States mortgage markets is spreading. Indexes in Europe fell as much as 7 percent after a huge sell-off in Asia. "There's something approaching panic in the market," Holger Schmieding, the chief European economist at Bank of America in London, said by telephone.