In response to yesterday’s 600 point drop in the Dow, world markets have been falling like a rock:
PARIS — Global stocks plummeted Friday after the rout a day earlier on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average lost more than 7 percent, and investors were desperately looking to global financial authorities meeting later in Washington for new measures to stem the turmoil.
“We are fighting really dire fundamentals,” said Gerhard Schwartz, an equity strategist at Unicredit in Munich. “It will require restoring trust and confidence before a sustained rebound will be possible.”
European markets fell more than 10 percent at the opening, but came off their lows a bit later. Just before midday in London, the FTSE 100 index was down 7.8 percent. In Paris, the CAC-40 was 8.0 percent lower, and the DAX in Frankfurt was down 9.0 percent.
Shares in Asia also plunged as fears continued to spread that a deep global recession is at hand, despite unprecedented steps by policy makers around the world to defuse the financial crisis.
The Nikkei 225 stock average — already reeling from a nearly 10 percent drop Wednesday — slumped 9.6 percent on Friday, closing at 8,276.43.
Trading in United States index futures suggested the Dow would fall about 3.3 percent at the opening bell. On Thursday, the Dow fell 678 points to 8579.19, its first close below 9,000 since 2003, as stocks were routed in an aggressive final hour of selling.
“The fear indexes are dramatically high,” Mr. Schwartz noted, pointing to measures of volatility that were near record highs. “We are seeing intraday volatility this week of 7 percent to 9 percent in Europe.”
With the wide trading range that have sent shares from deep in negative territory into positive territory and back this week, “We don’t know where we’ll be in just a few hours,” he said.
Uncertainty and panic don’t make for a good mix at all.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Post Enron and Arthur Andersen - the “Sarbanes Oxley” act was supposed to make all business transactions transparent and make someone accountable.
What happened on Wall Street? If Sarbanes Oxley is enforced, there should be lots of people going to jail!
Steve from KY
October 10th, 2008 at 11:11 am
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October 10th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
The Operation
The meltdown of the economy is like a cancerous growth in the body. The only way you can stop this kind of cancer is to cut it out. At the same time, you have to infuse new money into the system that will stimulate growth of new tissue. The only true way this can be done and save everyone from a great depression worldwide is you have to take the 700 billion dollars and use it in a more appropriate way. But before that can happen, you have to perform surgery on the market.
1st phase, the surgery consists of this, a congressional movement to take all homes that are in foreclosure and all arm loans and move them all to a 30 year fix at the current interest rate. This could be done by a simple application process. Anyone that is in foreclosure or is going to be in foreclosure if they apply to a special government comity should have their houses converted over to a 30 year fix at the current interest rate, and are automatically approved and given amnesty from their current mortgage problem.
All the homes that are in foreclosure or that are going to be in foreclosure should automatically be put at the current market value by the government. The upside down portion of home values today is just automatically moved by the government of the books as a loss.
It should be put in a special holding by the goernment to be metered back in to the market at a later date.
2nd phase is 350 billion dollars should be given by portion to all homeowners upon applying for it that have a current mortgage good or bad. Renters do not qualify. With all homes brought to a current market value in which all the money lost is a loss to the banks and institutions, the portion of the 350 billion dollars that the homeowner applied for, the loan will be paid back by property taxes over a 30 yr amortization. If the house is sold the loan would be paid back through the profit of the sale of the home. If no profit is made to pay back the loan in the sale, the new homeowner assumes the payback. The loan is locked into the taxes on that piece of real estate amortized over 30 years to pay it back. The loan should be an interest free loan. The purpose of this is to stimulate money flow back into the system.
It will be put in the banks and at the same time it will give the banks lending capital. 350 billion should go to Wall Street. This money should be used when applied for by a bank that needs to borrow the money with an interest rate attached to it. This money should be used for the sole purpose of lending to other institutions. It should not be used to pay the CEO’s salaries or to pay bank operations. But it should be used to generate lending back into commerce which in turn will generate jobs. A special committee should handle all mortgage transfers and all paper trails of the banks in lending the money.
If you don’t do this approach, everyone looses.
The rich will lose; middle class and poor will lose. Everyone will lose.
The reason why, because the bad loans will still be out there and they will bleed whatever money you put back in the system, they will bleed it out and you will arrive back at the same point which you are at right now and there will not be another 700 billion to give. The dead money in the loans that can never be recovered right now, that’s what’s killing consumer confidence, business confidence and Wall Street confidence. Only the government can convert every arm into a 30 yr fix and mandate that all the homes that are in or headed to foreclosure be lowered back down to the current market value. If you have any questions, contact us.
universalsolutionsgroup@yahoo.com
October 10th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
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