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Nonprofits have long sensed trouble. In its most recent Philanthropic Giving Index - sort of a Consumer Confidence Index for donations - the Center on Philanthropy reported in July that nonprofits were feeling less optimistic than they had six months ago. And that was before Lehman, before AIG, before the S&P 500 Index dove off a cliff. Gregory Boroff, senior vice president for external relations at the New York Food Bank, notes that his organization's donations from direct mailings is down 27% from the same time last year. Like City Harvest, the New York Food Bank receives the bulk...
...decoupling," as the Europeans had hoped when the global crash was still a stumble back in January. Just look at the stock markets since the beginning of the year. By market close on Oct. 7, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped by 27.5%; the FTSEurofirst 300 Index of European shares was down 32.5% over the same period. The pattern continues. As go U.S. shares, so go Europe's, but faster and harder on the downswing - and more slowly on the way back...
...world is in the grips of a perilous market crunch, the boom is over and tough times loom. The U.K.'s FTSE-100 stock index has nosedived in recent days and is down about 35% in the past year. Three famous British banks have already imploded - Northern Rock, HBOS and Bradford & Bingley. And after a dramatic plunge in the stock price of other banks, the deeply rattled British government came to the rescue on Oct. 8, announcing an emergency $88 billion recapitalization package. The City has been through enough slumps to know what to expect next: layoffs, shrinking bonuses...
...MSCI Asia Pacific Index finished the day up 1.2% after plummeting 16% during the previous week - the worst stock market rout suffered by the region since 1987. Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index gained 3.3% after an 8.2% drop yesterday, while Korea's Kospi index rose .6%. Japan's Nikkei index fell .5% after rising in morning trading - hardly a robust recovery, but the panic selling that marked Wednesday's 9.4% free-fall dissipated, at least temporarily...
...Remember markets are global," an anxious Treasury official reminded journalists leaving the building after a briefing as word filtered through that the formal announcement of the rescue package had failed to immediately restore optimism in the market. At market close, London's FTSE-100 index had fallen by 5.18%, even though the bailout plan was swiftly followed by coordinated rate cuts in the U.S., Britain and elsewhere. France's CAC 40 closed 6.3% lower on the day, and Germany's DAX lost 5.9%. Certainly, at least some of the downwards momentum was generated the day before by sinking New York...