Kauri
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Trading stopped in Bank Of China ahead of a major announcement.
These rumours just get better and better. Have any materialised Kauri? Are you sure the budgie isn't talking to you during the evening??.... and even some Norwegian townships with illegal exposure to subprime assets.
Cheers
........Kauri
Trading stopped in Bank Of China ahead of a major announcement. Bank of China was reported to have taken a big hit in Q4 "07 on exposure to subprime investments. Other news hints at more losses at France"s SocGen, Germany"s WestLB and even some Norwegian townships with illegal exposure to subprime assets.
Cheers
........Kauri
These rumours just get better and better. Have any materialised Kauri? Are you sure the budgie isn't talking to you during the evening??
Where did you get that from??
Latest market RUMOURS..
Here's a few for the day... and a good day it is for it and all...
Emergency Fed meeting tonight...75 bps..
BoJ and BoC have scheduled meetings today, and the BoC is looking at 50 instead of the expected 25bps..
One of the Sov wealth funds backing C is considering backing out..
Fears that Chinese banks need large writedowns..
Crunch to worsen as Fitch downgrades Ambac..
and fact... George Soros has warned that the current situation was "much more serious than any financial crisis since the end of the war."
Enough for now ... I guess
Cheerfull
...........Kauri
As I said earlier, Friday after Bush makes his announcement is probably the last chance for the Fed to announce an early rate cut. The Fed obviously feels that it can't stave off recession without Gov assistance. My feeling is that if the Fed acted first without some commitment from the Gov it would be akin to whittling it's only weapon down to the bone for little or no effect.
Once Bush makes his announcement that the rescue package being proposed is to kick in urgently the Fed may be inclined to make an announcement with some confidence that the markets will respond more positively.
Anything they do now is going to have a much greater aire of panic or incompetance about it.
I'm not sure if any rate cuts are going to fix it this time. I would think they'll need to cut 75bp just to stablise it for a few days. But if they cut any more than that, people will probably take it as a bad news, that the economy is in very bad shape. Result: calamity.
Dubya the worst US President in history? Iraq, sub prime, recession... I cannot think of a worse one - up there with 'Tricky Dicky' Nixon.
These rumours just get better and better. Have any materialised Kauri? Are you sure the budgie isn't talking to you during the evening??
noted the SBS news tonight had a financial honcho in europe from an investment firm over there using not the R word but the D word for 2008 and compared potential severity to..............um...... thats right - 1929
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