miércoles, 15 de septiembre de 2010

Markets are still suffering fallout from the collapse of Lehman Brothers two years ago

Two years after Lehman Brothers star in the biggest bankruptcy in history, the aftermath of the financial crisis that devastated still noticeable today in the world markets, but, finally, have agreed to discuss concrete measures to avoid similar situations .Today marks two years to the day that shook Wall Street collapse seeing one of its largest flagship: the investment bank Lehman Brothers was forced into bankruptcy due to the lack of institutions willing to bet on him.
The Dow Jones industrials, the main indicator of the largest financial market in the world, reached the second anniversary to 10526.49 points, or 7.84% below its level in the weekend it was negotiated to desperate the future of an investment bank that for 150 years resisted all crises, including the Great Recession and the
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The S & P 500, which measures the evolution of the 500 largest companies listed on Wall Street, the epicenter of the financial crisis, "is a 10.43% lower, having fallen steadily since September 2008 until March 2009 when hit bottom.

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Since then the New York Stock Exchange experienced a year of relative recovery since April 2010 and is maintained, but not without surprises and with the constant fear that the U.S. economy falling back into recession and the
Lehman brothers Fallout..As the New Yorker, many other markets have not regained the level it was before the tumultuous days of September 2008.According to EPFR study linking up this week by The Wall Street Journal since August 2008, investors around the world has withdrawn from the market about 203 000 billion, about 8.5% of all moving at the time.Although many markets are still resentful, some others, especially those of emerging economies have benefited from the hardships they lived the most developed, offering investors an alternative.
Its main attraction is its high economic growth rates (compared with the U.S., Europe and Japan) and its relatively low debt.Other markets that have seen their appeal in the last two years have been the raw material, the quintessential sound investment.For example, gold futures contracts traded over the September 12, 2008-the Friday before Lehman's bankruptcy "is changed to $ 764.5 an ounce in New York and the
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Until then, the highest price that had never been negotiated that precious metal were $ 1,033.9 17 March 2008.In contrast, the eve of the anniversary was trading 66.34% higher one, the record price of $ 1,271.70 an ounce.Investors have been searching and relatively safe nooks where you can leave your money, safe from possible new crisis arising from a hypothetical return to recession and the
Lehman brothers Fallout..This has helped the major stock markets is costing them recover, especially when compared with previous crises.

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Analysts point out now, for example, that two years after the famous "black Monday" of 1987, the Dow Jones was already 20% above its level before the markets around the world collapsed chain.To this must be added the fears aroused by the debt crisis experienced in Europe, the decline suffered by the labor market and real estate in the U.S. and the delay in the promised financial reforms after the fall of Lehman.

Thus, they have taken two years for everyone responsible for monetary matters agreed last Sunday solvency standards of financial institutions known as Basel III, who seek to tackle the bad practices of the financial sector led the financial earthquake of September 2008 and the
Lehman brothers Fallout..Its main novelty is that hardens the capital requirements that must accumulate financial institutions, but its effects will not be immediate, as the G-20 members should review these arrangements at its meeting next November, and in any case, the period for its implementation until 2018 arrives.
Meanwhile, U.S. President, Barack Obama, has managed to get ahead, not without difficulties, the biggest reform since the Great Depression, which allows companies such as dismantling endanger the economy and increase surveillance on the financial system and particularly the derivatives market and the
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