A potential bidder views a foal at the Magic Millions sales complex on Australia's Gold Coast during an auction of Broodmares from Patinack Farm, the horse racing stud owned by mining magnate Nathan Tinkler, on October 30, 2012.

An auctioneer at the Magic Millions sales complex on Australia's Gold Coast brings his hammer down during an auction of Broodmares from Patinack Farm on October 30, 2012.

A single monitor remains on above a trading pit on the floor of the of the Chicago Board Options Exchange in Chicago, Oct. 29, 2012. The CBOE and other U.S. financial exchanges were closed today and will remain closed Tuesday because of Hurricane Sandy.

Trading jackets, which traders are required to wear before entering the trading floor, hang in the coatroom at the Chicago Board Options Exchange in Chicago, Oct. 29.

The trading floor at the Chicago Board Options Exchange sits deserted in Chicago, Oct.29.

The floor of the New York Stock Exchange sits empty of traders in New York, Oct. 29. Trading has rarely stopped for weather. A blizzard led to a late start and an early close on Jan. 8, 1996, according to the exchange's parent company, NYSE Euronext. The NYSE shut down on Sept. 27, 1985 for Hurricane Gloria.

Labourers sort through and grade harvested tomatoes on a farm that supplies fresh produce to Wal-Mart in Narayangaon, about 112 miles west of Mumbai.

Labourers harvest tomatoes on a farm that supplies fresh produce to Wal-Mart in Narayangaon.

Two-wheelers move past the newly opened Bharti Wal-Mart Best Price Modern wholesale store in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.

Workers walk inside an aisle of the newly opened Bharti Wal-Mart Best Price Modern wholesale store.

Kevin Kisich was a research scientist for twenty years until his funding ran out in 2008. Now he builds furniture in Lafayette, Colorado.

Michelle Guerrero of Reno, Nevada reviews homework with her daughter Elizabeth, 7.
Duerrero has decided to go back to school after she was unable to find work.

Helen Tucker, right, speaks with respiratory therapist Erin Rhamstine after taking a pulmonary function test on in Virginia Beach, Va. Tucker lost her job at the beginning of the recession and had to leave her hometown and take a drastic pay cut to find work. Now without health insurance she's paying out-of-pocket as medical expenses grow from a respiratory problem.

Helen Tucker, left, takes a pulmonary function test in Virginia Beach, Va. Tucker lost her job at the beginning of the recession and had to leave her hometown and take a drastic pay cut to find work. Now without health insurance she's paying out-of-pocket as medical expenses grow from a respiratory problem.

Christopher Anno of Denver, Colorado recently left the military and took the first job he could find. Now he works in an accounting office and feels lucky to have the job, but it isn't enough.

Joseph Brechtel of Loveland , Colorado used to make over $80k per year and now delivers pizzas.

Lewis Lemons III, 32, poses for photographs with his twin sons Avery, 9, front, and Jayden, in a motel room where the homeless family is staying, at the Airport Inn in Riverside, Ca. Lemons has multiple degrees but has not been able to find a job which pays more than he used to make befiore his post-graduate work.

A man crosses a deserted road during a strike in Kolkata, India, on Sept. 20. Angry opposition supporters disrupted trains in India on Thursday but had only limited success in enforcing a national strike to protest a government decision to cut fuel subsidies and open the country's huge retail market to foreign companies.

State-run passenger buses rest inside a depot after demonstrators attacked the vehicles during a nationwide strike in the northern Indian city of Lucknow on Sept. 20.

Indians walk past closed shops during a nationwide strike in New Delhi, India, on Sept. 20.

A man stands in front of closed shops during a nationwide strike in Kolkata on Sept. 20. Schools, shops and government offices were shut in some Indian states on Thursday as protesters blocked road and rail traffic as part of a one-day nationwide strike against sweeping economic reforms announced by the government last week.

An Indian rickshaw puller, sitting beside a row of parked rickshaws, smokes a leaf cigarette during a general nationwide strike in Siliguri on Sept. 20.

Drivers rest on parked taxis during a strike in Kolkata, India on Sept. 20.

Indian police officers detain a left party activist during a nationwide strike in Hyderabad, India, on Sept. 20.

Activists of various left parties along with Samajwadi Party members jump over barricades as they try to get detained by police during a protest in New Delhi, India, on Sept. 20.

A detained activist from India's main opposition Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shouts slogans from a police van during a nationwide strike in Mumbai on Sept. 20.

An Indian vendor takes a nap at the wholesale and retail market in Mumbai, India, Sept. 15. India decided on Sept. 14 to open its retail sector to foreign supermarkets, in what could be a major economic reform that had been blocked last year due to political opposition. The cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA), headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, decided to permit up to 51-per-cent foreign direct investment in companies such as department stores that sell items from multiple brands, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma announced in New Delhi. Global chains like Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Tesco Plc have already expressed an interest in entering India's lucrative 500-billion-dollar multi-brand retail sector.
Decades ago, India banned foreign ownership in main business sectors.

People shop for clothes at a roadside market in Kolkata, Sept. 15.

Indian customers shop at the wholesale and retail market in Mumbai, India, Sept. 15.

People shop for clothes at a roadside market in Kolkata, Sept. 15.

Indian members and supporters of Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) shout slogans during a protest in Ahmedabad, India, Saturday, Sept. 15. Angry Indian opposition parties protested on Saturday against the government's decision to open the country's huge retail market to foreign retailers, a hike in the price of diesel fuel and reduction in cooking gas subsidies. The mock cooking gas cylinder reads as "Down with price rise."

An employee makes plastic Christmas trees at the Zhongsheng Christmas Crafts factory in Yiwu, Zhejiang province on Sept. 13. Christmas comes but once a year, but for Christmas decoration factories and retailers in China, it starts as early as July and ends in late September, when massive orders from around the world arrive in Yiwu, located 185 miles south of Shanghai in the prosperous Zhejiang province. Yiwu is considered a bellwether for China's low-cost exports, especially exports destined for emerging markets. Orders come from places as far away as Europe, the United States and South America. This year, European demand for Christmas goods has dropped sharply, local vendors said. One estimated European orders were down 20 percent from last year, while another said his European orders had fallen by 40 percent.

A vendor smokes next to an inflatable Santa Claus outside of his Christmas decoration shop in Yiwu, Zhejiang province on Sept. 13.

Natalia Malharoblishvki from Georgia buys Christmas decorations at a commercial area in Yiwu, Zhejiang province on Sept. 13.

A Pakistani man mourns as he waits in the EDHI Morgue to identify his relative who was killed in a garment factory fire in Karachi.

Relatives and residents carry the coffin of a woman, who was killed in a fire at a garment factory, for burial during her funeral in Karachi on Sept. 13.

People comfort a woman who lost a family member in a garment factory fire, during a funeral in Karachi, Pakistan on Sept. 13.

People survey the undamaged area of a garment factory which was hit by a fire in Karachi on Sept. 13. The devastating fire on Sept. 11 in Pakistan's commercial hub of Karachi killed at least 280 people, as the deadly blaze raised fresh concerns about workplace safety.

The hand of dead Pakistani garment factory worker is seen at a hospital following a fire in a garment factory in which at least 280 people died in Karachi. More than 310 people have perished in fires that gutted factories in Pakistan's two largest cities, in tragedies that prompted calls for an overhaul of poor industrial safety standards, officials said.

A Pakistani man weeps for his relative who was killed in a garment factory fire in Karachi on September 13, 2012.