Topic: Summary Financial Market Forecasts
The new items published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Five Trillion Wiped off Global Stock Markets - Fed Emergency Interest Rate Cut Rumors / Forecasts / Financial Crash
By: Adrian_Ash
THE GOLD MARKET bounced off a 2.1% slump at the London opening on Tuesday as global stock markets attempted to steady on wild rumors of emergency interest-rate cuts.
Following Monday's torrid action in Asia and Europe , the loss of world equity value for 2008 to date is now put above $5 trillion.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Interbank Market Under Pressure Due to Year End Reporting / Forecasts / Credit Crunch
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Can financial system be in as big a mess as central banks' actions suggest? Year end is rapidly approaching, and accounting convention calls for all to strike balance sheets. Those financial statements influence the evaluations of firms by investors, regulators, and rating"agencies. Because of credit chaos, those institutions want to show sound, liquid balance sheets. As a consequence of the unusual demand for liquidity, the inter bank market for funds is under serious pressure.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Tough Time for Investors During the Credit Crisis and Monetary Inflation / Forecasts / Investing
By: Andy_Sutton
As the current credit crises continues to deepen, much of the focus is on illiquid assets, seized markets and how the Fed and other central banks will attempt to bail the world economy out of this storm. Much of the debate has centered around whether or not the United States will be able to avoid a recession, whether consumer spending will fall off a cliff, and how likely it is for the economies of emerging countries will be able to decouple and survive a slowdown in the US. While these are certainly important questions to be asking, an even more important observation must be made.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Sovereign Wealth Funds – A Controversial New Power in Global Markets / Forecasts / Global Financial System
By: William_R_Thomson
The imbalanced global economy of recent years, where the US ran huge current accounts deficits of USD 800 billion or so and emerging markets built up huge surpluses of foreign exchange, is passing from a benign period to one that could bring the openness of investment markets into question and engender a lapse back into financial protectionism.
Ten years ago Asia, Russia, Latin America were broke and In crisis having to obey the dictates of the International Monetary Fund to pull themselves out of the hole the markets had dug for them. With the oil price hovering in the teens, OPEC had no spare funds either. In the midst of the tech boom the US was top dog and ruled the roost.
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