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River of Gold To see how finance has reshaped the British capital, take a trip to Greenwich, about 3 1⁄2 miles (6 km) downstream from Tower Bridge and home to the Royal Observatory, which dates back to 1675. It's the birthplace of Greenwich Mean Time, but for years the area was as well known for its mean streets: 19 Greenwich neighborhoods rank among the most deprived in England. Since 2001, the local council has pursued a major state-funded regeneration program aimed at cutting crime and unemployment, and improving the decaying public housing stock. But these days...
...concerted action of Oct. 8 passed with barely a shrug from Wall Street. Stock markets worldwide continued to roil, and banks everywhere remained in the firing line. "Confidence has completely crashed, and it will take a while to rebuild it," says Craig Wright, chief economist at the Royal Bank of Canada, who is nonetheless hopeful that these and other measures will eventually start to work. "But it's hard to hear positives in a thunderstorm of gloom...
...everyone else. Overall, the IMF expects world economic growth to slow to 3% in 2009, from 5% in 2007, and it warns, "The world economy is now entering a major downturn in the face of the most dangerous shock in mature financial markets since the 1930s." Wright of the Royal Bank of Canada predicts, "The U.S. will go into a shallow recession, unfortunately followed by a shallow recovery...
...spoke, the future for British banking was looking grim. Behemoths such as HBOS and the Royal Bank of Scotland group had seen their shares fall by 39% and 42% respectively on Tuesday, continuing a trend set at the beginning of the week as the FTSE 100 racked up its biggest fall in 21 years. Last month the government was forced to nationalize the mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley, and earlier this year it took over another debt-ridden bank, Northern Rock, guaranteeing the deposits of retail customers. Britain's protection scheme for private-sector banks guarantees deposits only...
European bank stocks continued to take a beating on Tuesday following a series of ad hoc steps by national governments to try to shore up confidence in financial institutions. By the day's close, Britain's troubled HBOS was down 41.5%, and the Royal Bank of Scotland's shares had lost 39% of their value; Germany's Commerzbank fell 14%, and Deutsche Bank was down 8.9%. The pummeling followed a black Monday in which stock exchanges across Europe dropped as much as 9%, suggesting that the markets were casting a doleful eye on the $700 billion U.S. bailout package passed...