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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Oct 6, 2008 13:52:13 GMT -5
Dow 9,605.13 -720.25 (-6.98%) Nasdaq 1,785.91 -161.48 (-8.29%) S&P 500 1,015.23 -84.00 (-7.64%)Only one larger stock that is UP today and in long term uptrend *meaning stock which appears bear resistant Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company *chewing gum and other confectionery products worldwide. finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:WWY
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Oct 6, 2008 13:59:00 GMT -5
news ------- Credit Crisis Drives Stocks Down Sharply Brendan McDermid/Reuters A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
Published: October 6, 2008
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM Published: October 6, 2008
Stocks took an even sharper dive late in the afternoon on Monday, as stricken investors sent the Dow Jones industrials down more than 700 points with 90 minutes remaining in the session.
Markets around the world spiraled downward on Monday as the banking crisis tightened its grip on the global economy. For the first time since 2004, the Dow was trading below 10,000, a psychological milestone that came as the index lost more than 500 points in the first hour of trading alone.
Selling intensified throughout the morning as investors reeled from a series of high-profile bank bailouts in Europe, where governments scrambled over the weekend to save several major lenders from collapse.
By 2:30 p.m., the Dow was down 6.9 percent. The broader American stock market fell 7.5 percent, as measured by the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, its worst decline since last Monday’s 8.8 percent drop.
The Dow has lost more than 1,100 points — or about 10 percent — in slightly more than a week. The S. & P. has lost more than 15 percent in the same period.
The sharp slides came despite more reassurances from President Bush and a morning announcement from the Federal Reserve that it would significantly expand the amount of money it made available to major banks. The Fed will now lend up to $900 billion in credit, an enormous sum that officials hope will reassure banks that the government will provide them with adequate capital.
The moves were aimed at resolving a problem at the center of the current credit crisis: the reluctance of banks to lend. The healthy functioning of the world’s economy is dependent on the easy flow of short-term loans among banks, businesses and consumers, a stream that has been cut off as banks become more fearful of giving out cash.
Despite a $700 billion bailout package passed by Congress last week, events over the weekend in Europe only intensified investors’ anxieties. European stocks fell by the biggest amounts in decades. Major indexes in London and Frankfurt lost more than 7 percent; stocks in Paris fell by 9 percent.
On Wall Street, energy stocks fared the worst after oil prices dropped below $90 a barrel, reaching their lowest levels since February. Crude oil was trading just over $89 a barrel in New York after 2 p.m.
President Bush made an unscheduled stop on Monday morning to speak about the crisis with owners of small businesses in San Antonio — and the television cameras that follow him there.
“It’s going to take a while to restore confidence in the financial system,” the president said at Olmos Pharmacy, an old-fashioned soda shop and lunch counter.
“We don’t want to rush into this situation and have the program not be effective,” Mr. Bush said, calling the package “a big step” toward fixing the economy.
Borrowing rates remained very high on Monday despite the passage of the American bailout plan, although proponents of that package argue that its longer-term benefits will take time to carry out. Still, some gauges of anxiety in the market again reached record highs as the week began, and a benchmark overnight borrowing rate, the Libor rate, moved higher. A measure of volatility, the VIX index, jumped to its highest intraday level ever.
“It’s not just a question clearing problem assets,” said Bob McKee, chief economist for Independent Strategy, a research consultancy. “If banks don’t have enough capital they will be paralyzed.”
The price of oil tumbled nearly $4 a barrel to below $90, its lowest price since February, before recovering slightly to $90.90 around 10 a.m. The euro continued to fall against the dollar.
Falling oil prices provoked a decline of just over 1,000 points, or nearly 9.9 percent, on the Toronto Stock Market. The drop brought the S.& P./TSX index below 10,000 points for the first time since May 2004.
Energy stocks drove the decline, falling 13 percent. Financial industry shares were down 7 percent in midmorning trading, with the Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s largest bank, down 8.43 percent. That drop came despite the fact that the Royal Bank, like most of Canada’s major banks, has relatively little exposure to troubled debt in the United States.
Strong prices for oil and gas as well as commodities like metals have allowed most of Canada to escape the economic downturn in the United States. But the Bank of Nova Scotia report released on Monday said that weakness in the manufacturing sector, which relies heavily on exports to the United States, would most likely push Canada into a recession.
In Europe, governments worked over the weekend to prevent the collapse of two lenders, Hypo Real Estate in Germany and the Belgian operations of Fortis. The German government also said it would guarantee all private bank deposits as it sought to avert the spread of the financial contagion.
The FTSE 100 index in London fell 5.6 percent; the Frankfurt DAX was down 5.2 percent and the CAC-40 in Paris lost 5.9 percent.
A similar sell-off occurred in Asia, the Nikkei 225 stock average in Tokyo fell 4.3 percent, while the Kospi index in Seoul fell 4.3 percent. The Standard & Poor’s/ASX 200 index in Sydney fell 3.3 percent, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was down 5 percent.
“People are really disappointed by the inability of Europe to react on a concerted basis,” said Andrew Popper, a fund manager at SG Hambros in London. “It’s still very much a country-by-country approach. There is also a realization that we haven’t seen any effects on economic growth so far but that now is starting and that’s having an effect on nonfinancial shares.”
Steps by some European governments over the weekend to guarantee deposits may avoid a panic among consumers but will not help banks cope with their financing problems, said Adrian Darley, a fund manager at Resolution Asset Management in London.
“There are still a lot of issues out there,” Mr. Darley said. “Deposit guarantees are just a short-term solution. It does not necessarily help with interbank loans or if you have bad loans on your books. It will take a lot more than that.”
In Iceland and Russia, trading on banking shares was halted after indexes fell more than 14 percent.
Shares of industrial companies were hammered in Europe with EADS, the parent of Airbus, falling 7.5 percent. ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steel maker, dropped 8.6 percent, and the German automaker Daimler was down 5.8 percent. British Airways slid 10.3 percent.
BNP Paribas, which acquired a majority stake in Fortis for about $20 billion in an emergency deal late Sunday, was unchanged, while shares of Fortis were suspended. Trading in UniCredit, the big Italian bank, was delayed for an hour after the bank said late Sunday that it would seek about $9.1 billion in new financing and cut its earnings outlook. And Hypo Real Estate, the second-biggest German mortgage lender, fell 28 percent in Frankfurt after it received a new $68 billion bailout Sunday from German banks and the national government in Berlin.
Shares also dropped because many clients are withdrawing money from hedge funds and other investment funds with disappointing returns. “We’re seeing forced sales from redemptions,” Mr. Darley said.
Shares in HBOS, the British mortgage lender that agreed to be bought by Lloyds in a government-brokered deal, opened 20 percent lower on Monday.
Nicholas Bibby, an economist in the Singapore office of Barclays Capital, said that falling share prices showed that many investors were still worried that banking difficulties might spread even after the passage of the financial bailout plan in Washington. “It’s a fear of contagion,” he said, while adding that Asian banks were better positioned than most to withstand the current problems because the region’s high savings rate tends to mean that Asian banks are net lenders in international money markets.
Concerns about Asian exports have also been rising for months, because the region’s high savings rate means that its spending on consumption is weak and it remains heavily dependent on overseas demand.
CFC Seymour, a Hong Kong securities firm, pointed out in an investment newsletter on Monday that even before recent problems in financial markets, the combined trade balance of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines had gone from a surplus of $19 billion as recently as last October to a deficit of $2 billion in July. Only China is still running consistently large trade surpluses.
The realignment in the currency markets that has lifted the dollar and yen against the euro continued, as investors worried about Europe’s banks and economic health and continued their flight to the apparent stability of Japan’s financial system.
The euro fell to $1.3609 in Paris morning trading, from $1.3772 in New York late Friday. The dollar fell to 103.42 yen, from 105.32, and the euro declined to 140.74 yen, from 145.07.
The Shanghai stock exchange, closed for the last week for China’s National Day holiday, reopened on Monday with the Shanghai A-share market down 3.5 percent. The China Securities Regulatory Commission announced on Sunday that it would experiment with the introduction of short-selling and trading on margin on a limited basis, but did not say when the trial would begin.
www.nytimes.com/
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Oct 6, 2008 14:05:23 GMT -5
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Post by rex362 on Oct 6, 2008 14:08:06 GMT -5
dosent the market have a saftey switch that clicks in when panic sets in ..?
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Oct 6, 2008 14:16:50 GMT -5
MARKET SNAPSHOT Stocks suffer blowout as global crisis persists
Dow off nearly 800 points, below 10,000 for first time in nearly four years
By Nick Godt, MarketWatch Last update: 2:49 p.m. EDT Oct. 6, 2008
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped as much as 800 points, plunging below the 10,000 mark for the first time in nearly four years, as uncertainty amid a wave of government interventions in the U.S. and Europe only seemed to add to investor anxiety.
Shares in Europe suffered their worst one-day drop on record, and the Dow was down more than 700 points at last check. Crude oil prices fell 5.5% to below $90 a barrel, and gold and bond prices leaped as investors sought a safe haven.
"Right now, it's about stabilizing the financial system and then see how much collateral damage has been done to the economy," said Owen Fitzpatrick, head of U.S. equity at Deutsche Bank.
"The clear message is that the global economy is slowing rapidly, and the magnitude of the slowdown is starting to be realized by the market."
At last check, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 795 points, or 7.6%, at 9,532, a session low.
The day's action marked the first time the blue-chip index has traded below the 10,000 mark since Oct. 29, 2004. "Psychologically, it does play a role," Fitzpatrick said of that threshold. "But investors are not concentrating on this ... The big worry of the moment remains liquidity and the economy."
Among blue-chip financial shares, Citigroup Inc. fell 11%, Bank of America dropped 8% and J.P. Morgan Chase lost 8%.
Amid concern that financial pain is spreading to industries linked to global growth, energy shares, along with those of materials stocks, also fell sharply.
Among blue-chip issues, shares of aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. which is expected to post quarterly results Tuesday, fell 12%. Equipment-maker Caterpillar Inc. stock fell 8%.
"We've had the passage of [the $700 billion] bailout but it will takes time for it to start getting traction," Fitzpatrick said. The Treasury is not expected to start buying ailing assets
The S&P 500 fell 84 points, or 7%, to 1,015 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 159 points, or 7.6%, to 1,789, led by a 10% decline in shares of eBay , which announced it was slashing 10% of its workforce.
Trading volumes showed 1.1 billion shares exchanging hands on the New York Stock Exchange, and 945 million shares trading on the Nasdaq. Declining issues topped gainers by 5 to 1 on the NYSE and by 14 to 1 on Nasdaq.
President Bush signed a emergency legislation into law Friday just as the latest U.S. employment report showed 159,000 jobs lost in September.
"These really are unforgiving times and it was a case of buy the rumor, sell the fact as the S&P 500 moved from being up more than 3% as the last few necessary 'yes' TARP bill votes were being registered, to a near four-year low at the close," said Jim Reid, a strategist at Deutsche Bank.
Last week, the Dow lost 7.4%, the S&P 500 fell 9.4%, and the Nasdaq lost 10.8%.
Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher and Chicago Fed President Charles Evans both are due to speak on the U.S. economy on Monday. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is due to speak on Tuesday.
Outside of banks, Eli Lilly reached a deal to buy ImClone Systems for $6.5 billion, or $70 a share in cash.
Coca-Cola was downgraded to hold by Deutsche Bank on the potential for slower volumes at home and abroad as well as currency headwinds.
Roche, Genentech and Osi Pharmaceuticals said a Phase III trial of Avastin with Tarceva in non-small-cell lung cancer didn't improve survival.
Nick Godt is a MarketWatch reporter based in New York. www.marketwatch.com/
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Oct 6, 2008 14:24:31 GMT -5
doesnt the market have a safety switch that clicks in when panic sets in ..?
I think what we are witnessing is a total reorganization of overall market (started by what is the beginning of collapse of financials that was started by earlier mortgage crisis) and the full blown bear market before us now will easily last at least for one year.
Recession has been entered.
In simple words we are witnessing now dieing out of the old and something new will be born out of this (which no-one at this point knows exactly what that is or at least it is not visible to the general public). Panic will not go away as there is nothing to stop it (certainly not 700B$ bailout package which is like adding a band aid to a gunshot wound). This bear situation is unlike any other within the last 50+ years thus brace yourself and play more of puts rather then calls (which will become more reminiscent of dead cat bounces rather then true sustainable uptrends, at least for some time).
A lot of money will change hands and wealthier will become far more wealthier and perhaps fewer in numbers while middle class will practically evaporate into thin air.
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Post by rex362 on Oct 6, 2008 15:46:25 GMT -5
are you telling me to sell all my long term PG shares and play put options on it ...?? ;D puts on GOOG coming
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