Spain Bank Downgrade Kills Markets Worldwide
A Moody’s downgrade of several banks in Spain smashed markets in Asia and Europe. The concerns that problems in Greece could spread to a much larger economy increased. Even with the new facility of nearly $1 trillion, and IMF aid, the…
The concerns that problems in Greece could spread to a much larger economy increased. Even with the new facility of nearly $1 trillion, and IMF aid, the cost to rescue Spain and its banks could be overwhelming. Spain’s economy is already in recession and unemployment is above 24%.
The Hang Seng dropped 1.9% to 18,845. The Nikkei was down 3% to 8,611. The Japan index has had its longest downward streak since the September 11 catastrophe.
In Europe, the FTSE, DAX and CAC 40 all moved lower by 1.1% at the open, and the trend was sharply down. European banks in particular were hurt on worry that some my have to take huge write-offs of sovereign debt holdings.
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McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.