Wall Street came back after its worst week and staged
a surprising one day jump gaining 900 points. So far it is not over,
but buyers have returned back to market buying low priced stocks and
helping Dow Jones gain its market share again.
The big gain came after Bush administration is
currently working on plan to get loans moving again. The Dow gained
more than 11 percent, its biggest one-day rally since 1933.
Everywhere you looked today it showed gains, all you can see today
was green screen with almost every stock moving up. NASDAQ composite
index moved higher by 195 points, or nearly 12 percent, the Standard
and Poor's 500, rose 104 points.
Central banks are working together to ease crises on
Wall Street where Europe's central banks said they would lend
commercial banks as much money as they would need. This news eased
money market rates and Dow Jones jumped on the news along with
government announcing further steps to support the global banking
system.
Volatile trading is expected as investors are still
concerned about banking and overall economy. Bush
administration said it is moving quickly to implement $700 billion
plan, even consulting with law firms about how to buy out shares of
banks.
With the good news on Wall Street, three-month LIBOR
fell. Neel Kashkari, the assistant Treasury secretary who is head of
the $700 billion bailout plan said in speech that officials were
developing guidelines to purchase bad mortgage assets from
banks.
Kashkari announced that more than 100 companies had
submitted bids to become one of the five to 10 firms that will
operate the program to buy and manage the bad assets from financial
firms.
Fed offered assistance to European banks as it was
taking actions to assure enough U.S. dollar funds. European
government said they are putting nearly $2 trillion to help out with
banking system.
Wall Street has still plenty to worry about, from
housing prices that may decline even further to job looses that are
cutting on spending.
It was also too soon to say for sure whether lending
was finally loosening up. The Bank of England said it would use up
to $63 billion to help the three largest British banks strengthen
their balance sheets.
Government is currently investing 250 billion in
possibly thousands of banks. The planned buyout is between U.S.
Treasury, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The
FDIC will insure all non-interest paying bank deposits and new
preferred debt issued by banks. The new proposal will provide a
faster relief for banks and allow banks to lend again or even
re-write their credit guidelines.
So what comes next is a big question. Are we going to
face poor economy? Housing prices needs to stabilize before we can
call of recession and this may take time. Even with a big bill from
Congress it will added up to taxpayers. More people nowadays lost
their savings, lost jobs and until most of us can return to our
normal lives, it all will take longer time. As of right now, most of
us will cut on spending to save more.