- Ordered millitary trials at Guantanamo to be suspended for 120 days.
- Put on hold all pending regulations that Bush administration tried to push through in its last days.
- Was scheduled to meet key members of economic team to discuss plans for $825bn stimulus package.
- Convenced teleconference of national security council members and top US military commanders in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- Markets ‘Bow’:- Major indices fell arround the world, with Dow taking its biggest inauguration day plunge of 330pts Sensex shed 321pts.