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Nieuws-Flash!
Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo warn
‘delusional’ investors on stocks
Het is dan ook niet vreemd dat er stemmen opgaan die aandelenkopers
waarschuwen voor overmatig optimisme..
Wall Street faces the growing risk of an equities bloodbath in coming
months as the credit crunch spreads to the wider economy
and earnings crumble, according to a pair of grim reports issued
by Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo.
David Kostin, the chief US investment guru for Goldman Sachs,
expects the S&P 500 index of Wall Street equities to plummet a
further 15pc over the “near term” as companies scramble to lower
their outlook for this year.
“Although only a few firms have reported first quarter results,
early signs are awful. We expect a swath of lowered Street faces
the growing risk of an equities bloodbath in coming months as
the credit crunch spreads to the wider economy and earnings
crumble, according to a profit guidance,” he said in a research
note published today, entitled ‘Fasten Seatbelts’.
Scott Anderson, chief economist at Wells Fargo, is equally pessimistic,
describing the bullish views of some market players as
“bordering on delusional”.
Lees verder
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/04/14/bcngold114.xml
Housing woes in U.S.
spread around globe
Met zoveel slecht nieuws is het ook niet eenvoudig optimistisch te blijven
(over de economie)..
DUBLIN — The collapse of the housing bubble in the United States
is mutating into a global phenomenon, with real estate prices
swooning from the Irish countryside and the Spanish coast to
Baltic seaports and even parts of northern India.
This synchronized global slowdown, which has become increasingly
stark in recent months, is hobbling economic growth worldwide,
affecting not just homes but jobs as well.
In Ireland, Spain, Britain and elsewhere, housing markets that
soared over the last decade are falling back to earth. Property
analysts predict that some countries, like this one, will face an
even more wrenching adjustment than that of the United