Davos

n January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, movers and shakers lined up to spit into test tubes -- the first step to having snippets of their DNA analyzed by 23andMe, a personalized gene-testing company that for $999 promises to help people "search and explore their genomes.

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - There is no end in sight to fallout from the credit squeeze that may trigger a big slowdown in U.S. growth and chill other economies too, a top central banker said on Friday. This week, stocks suffered their biggest one-day fall since the 9/11 attacks on the United States as investors feared the credit squeeze triggered last August by defaults in the U.S. mortgage market would tip the United States into recession.

With the world’s financial markets teetering on the brink of panic, the world’s most powerful executives, financiers and politicians will be searching for answers to the global credit meltdown when they gather for their annual retreat in this week in the Swiss Alps.