Dollar als weltweite Leitwährung?

[ThomasWach]

Mal ein paar Meldungen zur internationalen Finanzkrise und ihren weltweiten Auswirkungen:

European Crisis Deepens; Officials Vow to Save Banks (Update3)

By Sandrine Rastello

Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The credit crunch deepened in Europe as government leaders pledged to bail out troubled banks and protect depositors.

BNP Paribas SA will take control of Fortis's units in Belgium and Luxembourg after government efforts to ensure the company's stability failed, while Germany's government and financial institutions agreed on a 50 billion euro ($68 billion) rescue package for Hypo Real Estate Holding AG. U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said Britain is ``ready to do whatever it takes'' to help its banks.

The developments yesterday came a day after a summit in Paris where leaders of Europe's four biggest economies stopped short of a plan mirroring the $700 billion rescue in the U.S. to counter the worst financial crisis since World War II. Instead, they agreed to work together to limit the economic fallout, ease accounting rules, and seek tougher financial regulations.
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Quelle:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2...refer=home

Bank on This: Bank Failures Will Rise in Next Year

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 5, 2008
Filed at 10:36 p.m. ET

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Here's a safe bet for uncertain times: A lot of banks won't survive the next year of upheaval despite the U.S. government's $700 billion plan to restore order to the financial industry.

The biggest question is how many will perish and how they will be put out of their misery -- in outright closures by regulators scrambling to preserve the dwindling deposit insurance fund or in fire sales made under government pressure.
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The FDIC may be underestimating, or at least not publicly acknowledging, the trouble ahead. As of June 30, the FDIC had 117 insured banks and S&Ls on its problem list. That represented about 1 percent of the nearly 8,500 institutions insured as of June 30. Entering 1991, about 10 percent of the industry -- 1,496 institutions -- was on the FDIC's endangered list.

Although the FDIC doesn't name the institutions it classifies as problems, this year's June 30 list didn't include two huge headaches -- Washington Mutual Bank and Wachovia. Combined, WaMu and Wachovia had more than $1 trillion in assets; the assets of the 117 institutions on the FDIC's watch list totaled $78 billion.

Late last month, WaMu became the largest bank failure in U.S. history, with $307 billion in assets, nearly five times more, on an inflation-adjusted basis, than the previous record collapse of Continental Illinois National Bank in 1984. The FDIC doesn't expect WaMu's demise to cost its fund anything because JP Morgan Chase & Co. agreed to buy the bank's deposits and most of the assets for $1.9 billion.
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Quelle:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business...Banks.html

Markets routed in global sell-off
By Chris Giles in London, Michael Mackenzie in New York and James Politi and Alan Beattie in Washington

Published: October 6 2008 19:27 | Last updated: October 7 2008 00:31

Stock prices collapsed around the world on Monday amid growing fears that the credit crisis would trigger a global recession.

The wave of selling swept through markets despite a scramble by governments to tackle the crisis, leading to rampant speculation that co-ordinated emergency rate cuts by the Federal Reserve and other central banks might be in the offing.
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Quelle:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c9a27b24-93d1-...fd18c.html