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...because what analysts call "house-price appreciation" would increase the value of the collateral if borrowers couldn't or wouldn't pay. The idea that we'd have house-price depreciation - average house prices in the top 20 markets are down 15%, according to the S&P Case-Shiller index - never entered into the equation...
...Monday, the Dow registered its largest fall since the first day of trading after the Sept. 11 attacks. The S&P 500 index, a broader index which typically is less volatile than the Dow, is down 7.6 percent this week...
...Bank of China, among others), but it hasn't been safe. China's stock markets have fallen by 63% this year. Alerted to the severity of the slide by one of her investment-club friends, Zhu checked on the mutual fund earlier this week as Shanghai's stock index plunged below the 2,000-point level for the first time in nearly two years. Zhu was stunned to see that her investment had lost nearly...
Singapore -5.9% (Straits Times Index, 9/15-9/17...
...gravitate first to Shanghai, not Beijing. Still, the last couple of years have not been kind to the city. A cancerous corruption scandal, uncovered by the overlords in Beijing, claimed Shanghai's Communist Party boss and a substantial portion of the city's ruling elite. Shanghai's benchmark stock index has plunged to its lowest point since late 2006, and even the Japanese developer of the Shanghai World Financial Center admits that a real-estate slide has affected tenancy, with just 45% of the tower currently occupied. The hosting of the Olympics by Shanghai's northern rival only added insult...