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...told, the three plans address about $420 billion in toxic loans and assets that the government hopes to get off the balance sheets of banks. Will that be enough to nurse our nation's biggest banks and financial markets back to health? It's not clear. The plan leaves out tens of billions of dollars in bonds that were never AAA-rated and were hard to sell even in good times. The plan triggered a strongly positive stock-market reaction on Monday, when the Dow Jones industrials soared nearly 500 points. On Tuesday the market slipped 1.5%, as doubts about...
...Despite the public's justifiably poor opinion of many of the actors that inhabit the financial sector, spreading the blame will only hasten the economy's decline. In order for the economy to recover, the market must recover. And in order for the market to recover, America's antipathy toward the financial system must pass. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...market knows next to nothing about the fundamentals that should drive money into equities at this point. The skepticism about the Treasury's plan is enough so that it would be fair to guess that it has less than a 50/50 chance of succeeding. The toxic assets that may be bought from financial company balance sheets are only a part of the problem that banks face. Consumer, commercial real estate, and business loan defaults are almost certain to undermine money center results for the rest of this year...
...market is also rallying ahead of two pieces of bad news. One is the unemployment number for March and the other is the GDP figure for the first quarter. If one or both of these is "better than expected" stocks may climb even higher. Over the last six months, these figures have usually been worse than analysts have forecast and there is not much in the way of anecdotal data to support anything other than the fact that figures will keep getting worse. The most important bellwether for economic activity may be the rate of contraction in manufacturing...
...stock market was too low at the beginning of the month because it had all of the bad news of the next two years priced into it. That is, at least, what the current buyers are saying. All of the high unemployment and poor corporate numbers had been taken into account at the bottom. Under almost any set of circumstances, history would support this analysis. A recession lasts four quarters and then turns into a recovery. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...