Sep 14

Wall Street In Critical Shape

Wall Street has often been criticized in recent weeks the inability of Europe to overcome the economic difficulties caused by the collapse of U.S. financial institutions in 2008.

European firefighters accused of lacking effective when we are the arsonist is a position a little easier but seen from different 48H ‘sherpas’ to the euro zone to add fuel to the fire while the winds blowing at 150km / h, it’s still a shame

Europe does not even seem able to oppose any ‘survival reflex’ face of speculative attacks that plague because of lack of governance in the Greek case.

While the Euro and the sovereign debt of the Old Continent are buffeted in a storm, one of the lieutenants of the ship ECB leaves the ship a few months after the resignation of Axel Weber, who had sensed how much commitment the impasse Europe without collective will to confront the issue of deficits.

The European vessel was apparently more rudder and no one on the bridge of ‘G8′ has a clue about strategy.

Seen from London, all now seem plausible assumptions: an eviction from Greece, one out of Germany that do not want to pay for others, a collapse in the eurozone by domino effect with Italy spiraling out of control and causing France and then Spain in its wake. Never Eurozone ‘fashionable Maastricht’ has emerged as a building ‘lousy’ with a true ‘culture clash’ between the Nordic and Mediterranean (France’s is now part if we judge by the level reached by the CDS

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Sep 14

New signs of a slowdown in the United States

Investors are preparing to face the same turmoil this week that plague Wall Street and other major world stock markets since mid-summer, including a seemingly endless aggravation of the debt crisis in Europe and possible new signs of a slowdown in the United States.

Having digested Friday’s announcement of the resignation of Jürgen Stark of the European Central Bank (ECB), initially considered a symptom of divisions in Europe on how to overcome the crisis, market participants will interpret the signs came from Berlin Germany suggesting that failure to exclude most of Greece.

“Wall Street will change according to European banks, whose main problem is exposure to sovereign debt,” said Jack Gan, in charge of investments at Harbor Advisory.

The activity observed in the options market and the latest developments seem to predict the date for the month of September volatility as great as that recorded in August.

Week is low in business results – the retailer Best Buy and diverse manufacturing Pall is the only component of the S & P 500 to publish figures – investors will focus primarily on a series of macroeconomic indicators.

The latter include retail sales, the producer prices and consumption as well as statistics on the manufacturing sector.

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Sep 14

US Stock Exchanges End Down

Wall Street opened down sharply Monday’s session, while the debt crisis weakened the economy growing in the euro area and the French banks are at risk of lowering their credit ratings.

Investors are also worried more about a possible lack of Greece and the political divisions in Europe to resolve the debt crisis, as illustrated by the resignation Friday of Jürgen Stark, member of the Executive and Chief Economist European Central Bank (ECB).

In this fragile context, the New York Stock Exchange NYSE and Amex Cash Markets have invoked the rule to the opening 48, which allows information to suspend the course to allow for smooth opening.

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