Should India be able to decouple itself from US Subprime Impact?

Monday, August 13, 2007

Subprime Woes Wallop Wall Street Firms

As more news about the looming credit crunch slapped major stock indexes lower on Thursday, the U.S.'s big investment banks got hit even harder.

Standard & Poor's investment bank and brokerage sector tumbled 4.67% on Thursday. Big Wall Street players were pummeled. Bear Stearns (BSC), Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) all fell more than 5%, and Lehman Brothers (LEH) dropped more than 7%. Market anxiety had already caused financial stocks to drop more than 5% in the last month.

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