O negócio está realmente feio.
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For almost 10 minutes on Friday, Wall Street seemed in a free-fall.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell almost 700 points or about 8 percent in that time. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, declined almost 8 percent.
Then the turnaround began, and in the next five minutes, the Dow regained about 500 points. The S.&P. made similar gains.
Another day, another series of violent swings in a week that has seen large sell-offs in the last hour of the trading day.
Markets dropped in Europe and Asia as well, adding new urgency to efforts to find a solution to global financial problem.
“This is atrocious,” said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at Standard & Poor’s. “People are scared. Nobody believes what is coming out of the mouths of politicians, chief executives.”
Finance ministers and central bankers from the world’s richest countries were gathering for a crucial meeting in Washington, and President Bush was scheduled to make a statement about mid-morning Friday.
“It is a must for the G-7 countries, especially the U.S., to make a firm commitment to public fund injections for recapitalization of banks in trouble, in order to see the stock market pull out of the doldrums,” Hideyuki Suzuki, an analyst at Morningstar Japan told Reuters. “If the G-7 nations failed to do so, its raison d’être will be called into question for sure.”
So far, efforts by the various governments to help restore confidence in the financial system have failed to open the credit markets, the short-term financing that businesses depend on to fund their daily operations.”
“We are fighting really dire fundamentals,” said Gerhard Schwarz, an equity strategist at Unicredit in Munich. “It will require restoring trust and confidence before a sustained rebound will be possible.”
The S&P has now fallen for six successive days by more than 1 percent. According to Mr. Silverblatt, the last time that happened was in 1931. “The S&P has never gone down for seven days in a row by more than a percent,” he said.
European markets fell more than 10 percent at the opening, and stayed lower. In early afternoon trading in London, the FTSE 100 index was down about 8.8 percent. In Paris, the CAC-40 was 9.2 percent lower, and the DAX in Frankfurt was down 9.3 percent.
Shares in Asia also declined. Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average — already reeling from a nearly 10 percent drop Wednesday — slumped 9.6 percent on Friday, closing at 8,276.43.
Underlining the impact of the crisis, General Electric on Friday reported a 22 percent drop in third-quarter net income, with the global credit crisis hurting its GE Capital arm. In other economic news Friday, the Labor Department said the trade deficit narrowed 3.5 percent in August to $59.1 billion as oil consumption declined.
“The fear indexes are dramatically high,” Mr. Schwarz noted, pointing to measures of volatility in the markets that were near record highs. “We are seeing intraday volatility this week of 7 percent to 9 percent in Europe.”
With the wide trading range that have sent shares from deep in negative territory into positive territory and back this week, “We don’t know where we’ll be in just a few hours,” he said.
Concerns that a global recession could slow demand for oil caused prices to plunge below $82 a barrel on Thursday. The International Energy Agency, citing a “spiraling liquidity crisis,” cut its oil demand growth forecast for the rest of 2008 to its lowest rate in percentage terms since 1993.
In Asia, the Japanese benchmark index has given up more than 25 percent of its value this month.
The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong fell 7.2 percent on Friday, while the ASX/200 index in Sydney closed 8.3 percent lower.
Japanese investors dumped shares after Yamato Life Insurance, an unlisted mid-sized insurer, filed for bankruptcy protection. An unrelated real estate investment trust, New City Residence Investment, also filed for protection from creditors.
In Seoul, the Kospi index fell 4.1 percent. The Shanghai composite index fell 3.6 percent, giving it a loss for the week of about 15 percent. The Indonesian stock exchange suspended trading for a third day, and exchanges in Bangkok and Vienna halted trading after shares fell more than 10 percent, triggering circuit-breaker rules.
In Moscow, the Russian Duma, or lower house of Parliament, approved a financial sector bailout package valued at more than $80 billion. Trading on Russian stock exchanges was suspended until further notice.
Investors were keeping a close eye on a crisis meeting of Group of 7 finance ministers in Washington later Friday. The United States and Britain appear to be converging on a similar blueprint for stemming the financial chaos, which includes injection of government money into banks in return for ownership stakes and guarantees of repayment for various types of loans.
Credit markets remained frozen. The so-called Ted spread, which measures the gap between yields on safe three-month United States government securities and the rate that banks charge each other for loans of the same duration, was near record levels, at 4.41 percentage points, showing financial institutions remain deeply reticent about lending to their peers.
“Central banks are trying to supply liquidity, and in many cases it just comes back to them,” Robin Marshall, director of international fixed-income at NCL Smith & Williamson, told Bloomberg News. “There’s a real problem in getting people to put their money to work. The fear of counterparty risk is so intense that the only bank prepared to lend at the moment is the central bank.”
Mr. Schwarz suggested that the G-7 could help matters by, for example, moving to limit counterparty risk by having central banks insure transactions between financial institutions.
With a wave of United States adjustable-rate mortgages about to reset in the next few months, the authorities are eager to get interest rates down to head off a new wave of defaults in the housing market.
The interest rates on many of those mortgages are tied to Libor, the London interbank offered rate, the rate at which banks borrow from other banks. On Friday, the three-month Libor dollar rate rose to 4.82 percent, according to the British Bankers’ Association, despite the coordinated cuts that central banks made in their main interest rates this week. An auction Friday in New York ofcredit default swaps tied to Lehman Brothers was also weighing on the market. Institutional investors who are forced to pay out on the de facto insurance contracts may have to liquidate equities and other assets to raise funds.
Equities were also hurt by evidence that the financial market contagion has reached the broader economy.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Friday that its standardized unemployment measure for all 29 OECD countries was 6.0 percent in August, up 0.2 percentage point from July.
It also said its composite leading indicator for the developed world fell 0.7 point in August from July, suggesting a significant slowdown.
Singapore said Friday its economy had shrunk 6.3 percent during the third quarter, while Ken Wattret, an economist at BNP Paribas in London, said in a research note that it was “almost unavoidable” that the euro zone economy would shrink in 2009.
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said Thursday that the situation was “serious and even dangerous” and criticized the European Union’s responses to date as “not coordinated enough.”
The I.M.F. raised its estimate of the potential cost of the crisis to around $1.4 trillion, up from a previous forecast of $1 trillion.
On oil, OPEC has signaled it may slash output to support prices at an emergency meeting of leading oil-producing countries in Vienna on November 18.
United States crude oil futures for November delivery fell to their lowest in a year, dropping as low as $81.13 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The realignment in the currency markets continued, with major currencies falling against the yen. The dollar fell to 98.99 yen from 99.81 late Thursday in New York, while the euro fell to 134.18 yen from 135.80.
The euro fell to $1.3558 from $1.3605, and the British pound fell to $1.6880 from $1.7097. The dollar fell to 1.1205 Swiss francs from 1.1295 francs.
Mr. Schwarz said a positive bounce in the markets was almost inevitable in the next few days, after the sharp declines of the last few weeks. However, he cautioned that unless policy makers came up with a way to get borrowing costs down for corporations and consumers, any gains would likely be short-lived.
“It’s going to be very difficult for companies that need to refinance debt,” he said, “and this will start to show up in the next month.”
Additionally, with a wave of adjustable-rate mortgages about to reset in the next few months, the authorities are eager to get rates down. The interest rates on many of those mortgages are tied to Libor, the London interbank offered rate, the rate at which banks borrow from other banks.
Fonte:
New York Times