Dow Jones Jumps 900 Points

Released on: October 13, 2008, 6:00 pm

Press Release Author: RateTake.com

Industry: Financial

Press Release Summary: 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.

Press Release Body: 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.


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