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jeudi 6 mai 2010

European debts shake Wall Street .

The Greek parliament adopted the austerity plan raises doubts among U.S. investors rather than reassuring. The Dow Jones closed down 3.2% after falling by 9% during the session.
The concern is strongest on Wall Street. While the Greek parliament adopted the austerity measures needed to pay using the EU and IMFThe U.S. financial markets plunge. The Dow Jones fall at the close of 3.21% to 10,520.32 points, the Nasdaq lost 3.44% to 2319.64 points and the S & P 500 3.24% cowardly to 1128 points. During the session, the markets have even panicked: the Dow Jones has suffered a historic collapse of 9% and the Nasdaq is up 8.85%! But according to CNBC, a single error in a large trading company was behind the short dip seen between 14 hours and 15 hours ...
Strengthening investor panic, the spokesman for the White House said the reforms, as austerity plan imposed in Greece were "important" but they "take time".
"The situation in Europe has a low potential impact on the U.S. recovery. But this remains an important market for import and export for many countries and the euro is the second currency of international transactions, "says Fred Dickson, chief investment strategist at Davidson Cos.. "We all know that we also have budget problems and deficit," warns Jay Suskind of Duncan-Williams, implying that the United States themselves might be affected.
Again, fears of contagion go before the national indicators. However, good news came on the employment front. Entries weekly unemployment declined in the United States during the first week in May, against 444,000 451,000 the previous week, according to the Department of Labor. Economists had expected jobless claims averaged 440,000.
In addition, productivity gains of U.S. companies have been higher than expected first quarter. Productivity increased 3.6% over the fourth quarter, while analysts expected an increase of 2.5%.

The euro plunged again:
The euro sank under $ 1.26 for the first time since March 2009. The European currency, which was still worth $ 1.33 last Friday, has broken the symbolic threshold into this new 20:45.
Investors were disappointed by Decision of the ECB to keep interest rates unchangedWhile some wanted the European monetary authority takes steps to stem a possible spillover of the crisis of Greek debt to other countries in the euro area.
Andfences are in the bright red of European markets do not help matters.

Oil tumbles:
Oil prices fell for the third straight session Thursday in New York. On the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), the price of light sweet crude for June delivery ended at 77.11 dollars, down from 2.86 dollars the previous day. Over the past three sessions, he accumulated a dip 9.08 dollars, or 10.5%.
"This is entirely due to macroeconomic concerns," held Eckland Ellis, an independent analyst. "The debt crisis in Europe would clearly be negative for economic recovery in the world, especially in Europe."

Freddie Mac and distributors troubled markets:
On the side of values, Freddie Mac has asked yesterday in federal funding additional 10.6 billion dollars in U.S. Treasury. At the end of 2008, the Treasury has pledged to cover an unlimited losses for Freddie and Fannie until 2012. This new application brings to more than $ 61.3 billion total spent on federal aid to rescue Freddie Mac. In trading, the shares drop 6.24% to $ 1.34.
Distributors Costco Wholesale Corp. and Gap reported sales difficult last month, up just 0.5% for the first and were down 3% for the second comparable basis. Consequence: their respective securities fell by 3.86% to 58.03 dollars and 7.17% to 22.91 dollars.
In their wake, Target declines of 1.86% after publishing sales down 5.9% -2.3% in April cons expected by the markets.
The telecom equipment supplier, JDS Uniphase (-20.15% 10.94 dollars) has announced a loss of $ 11.9 million (101.7 million against last year). The sales were above expectations at 332.3 million dollars. The company said stronger growth in its order book for 2 years in the first quarter
The publisher of software security Symantec (+1.72% To 16.53 dollars) announced a profit of 184 million dollars and the video game publisher, THQ, significantly reduced its losses to 10.4 million against a deficit of nearly $ 100 million a year last.
Group CBS (-4.49% At 14.88 dollars) recorded a loss of posting $ 26.2 million for a turnover of 3.16 billion.

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