Asian subprime fears grow
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LONDON/SINGAPORE  - Three Asian banks' heavy exposure to the limping U.S. home loan sector reinforced global credit wobbles on Friday but Germany, France and Italy saw no signs of new problems.
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Asian shares slumped on Wednesday, tracking heavy losses on Wall Street amid fears a crisis in U.S. mortgage lending is spreading to the wider economy.
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Asian shares slumped on Wednesday, tracking heavy losses on Wall Street on fears about an intensifying crisis in U.S. mortgage lending.
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Risks to global expansion have recently increased due to tensions in the U.S. subprime mortgage market and there are fears of growing spillovers to other segments, the European Central Bank said on Thursday.
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A US slowdown, an oil shock and prospects of higher interest rates are the key risks to Asia's economies in the short-term, international ratings agency Standard and Poor's (S and P) says.
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Stock markets across Asia plunged even farther and faster on Tuesday than they had on Monday, as anxious sellers worried that an economic slowdown in the U.S. could drag down growth around the world.
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H&R Block looks to put its subprime woes behind it.
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The volatility triggered by the mortgage meltdown in the United States further plagued stock markets today, prompting a drop of all major indices in Asia.
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Asian stocks touched one-month highs on Tuesday as worries about a global credit squeeze continued to recede, but caution ahead of influential U.S. data this week kept a lid on markets and major currencies.
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Fears about the possibility of a recession in the US economy send Asian shares falling.
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Reports of fresh damage from the teetering U.S. subprime mortgage sector provoked financial market wobbles on Tuesday as central banks around the world said their interest rate intentions had been thrown into doubt.
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Indexes in Europe fell as much as 7 percent after a huge sell-off in Asia as concerns increased that the turmoil in the  United States mortgage markets is spreading.
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A Bank of Japan policy board member tried to soothe investors' nerves on Thursday, saying some market moves had been overdone, amid a new bout of tightness in short-term credit markets due to banks' growing risk aversion.
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Major Asian stock markets fell as much as 8 percent as panicky investors feared a U.S. recession could derail global economic growth, and a sharp drop in U.S. stock index futures pointed to heavy selling in New York later on Tuesday.
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Have Asia's central banks lulled Americans into a false sense of security?
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Share prices in Asia continue to fall  a day after global stocks tumbled amid fears of a global recession.
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Some Federal Reserve policymakers worried last month that inflation dangers were growing and that low interest rates might be encouraging excessively risky investments, including speculative home buying.