"A general risk-off mode predominates, the Fed meeting yesterday having been viewed as a crushingdisappointment by equity markets, " said Chris Beauchamp, market analyst at IG.
The result was a crushingdisappointment for the visitors, who were chasing a first Grand Slam since 2003 when England manager Martin Johnson captained them to a thumping 42-6 win in Dublin.
League One Orient were routinely swept aside in this fifth-round replay, but Arsenal's crushingdisappointment from Sunday's failure to collect their first trophy since 2005 - after losing the Carling Cup final to Birmingham - was hard to hide at a muted Emirates Stadium.
Instead, he died from a crushing sadness and disappointment after discovering that Zhu, whom he had courted as a handsome man with beautiful eyes, turned out to be a woman under her man's disguise.