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...recession by anticipating recovery in the same way their fears of economic slowing accelerate the arrival of that very crunch," Touati says. "Right now, a lot of the medicine for a remedy for long-term recovery is already out there, but markets are in such a micro-short-term speculative mode they aren't taking it. That's what has driven share prices of many fundamentally sound companies so low that investors willing to take a risk now will make a killing in the longer term...
...prices, profits to banks, right now, just about everything seems to be falling. Amid the carnage, though, there's at least one measure you can't keep down: fear. Wall Street's favorite measure of market volatility and investor jitters, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index - VIX for short - briefly topped 80 points for the first time Thursday, as U.S. stocks slipped on a pile of poor economic news. The VIX, dubbed the "fear gauge", eventually closed at a touch under 68, three times the average over its 18-year history. Prior to this past week, the index hadn...
...measure of how volatile investors reckon markets will be in the short term, the sharp sell-offs seen in recent months have sent the VIX to its eye-popping highs. The index is calculated from the price of options - a deal to buy or sell an asset at a fixed price and time - linked to the S&P 500. As the value of that index plummets - the leading benchmark of U.S. stocks has lost about a third of its value this year - investors are scrambling to pick up options in order to hedge against those losses. That, in turn, drives...
...terms extracted by the Administration. Second, is there enough oversight and restrictions to make sure that the bad practices of the past do not recur and that new lending does occur? Again, comparing the terms demanded by the U.K. and by the U.S. Treasury, we got the short end of the stick. For instance, banks can continue to pay out money to shareholders, as the government pours money in. Thirdly, is it enough money? The banks are so nontransparent that no one can fully answer the question, but what we do know is that the gaps in the balance sheet...
...contraction of the economy. But to kick-start the economy, Washington must make investments in the future. Hurricane Katrina and the collapse of the bridge in Minneapolis were grim reminders of how decrepit our infrastructure has become. Investments in infrastructure and technology will stimulate the economy in the short run and enhance growth in the long...