Credit Turmoil Bruised Most on Wall Street, but Pain Was Not Shared Equally
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Wall Streetâs first reports since this summerâs credit storm revealed extensive damage, but better-than-expected earnings this week from four brokerage firms offered some comfort.
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Stocks slid in early trading amid renewed fears that financial companies will suffer larger-than-expected write-downs from credit market troubles.
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No one knows how large the earnings losses at banks will be, but the turmoil in the credit markets will likely hurt the industry over the next couple of financial quarters.
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Wall Street investors didn't exactly celebrate the Federal Reserve's emergency rate cut Tuesday, but home owners with expensive lines of credit on their mortgages should jump for joy.
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Wall Street since midsummer has  weathered three hurricanes, a heightened insurgency in Iraq, a  mud-slinging presidential campaign, a soft patch in the  economy, two Fed rate hikes and a tense period of attack alerts  surrounding the national political conventions.
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The FTSE 100 suffered one of its worst sessions in recent years despite moves by the world's leading central bankers to combat the credit squeeze.
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Worries about the world-leading U.S. economy and fears over bank credit rippled across financial markets on Monday, sending stocks sharply lower and dragging the dollar to a record low against the euro.
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Wall Street stocks battled through another volatile session on Tuesday after a massive injection of liquidity from the European Central Bank did little to calm fractious equity markets.
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Banks were reeling from a credit crunch. Mortgage firms were collapsing. A steep recession was looming. So the U.S. government set up a corporation to buy troubled home loans and distressed properties, stabilizing the financial system.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 28 -- Volatility returned to Wall Street on Tuesday, sending stocks plunging as uneasiness grew among investors about the economy and whether the Federal Reserve would take the steps to prevent problems in the credit markets from spreading.
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NEW YORK, June 12 -- Wall Street plunged Tuesday as investors drove the Dow Jones industrial average down nearly 130 points while grappling with a seemingly relentless rise in bond yields.
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Persistent news about subprime woes still irk Wall Street.
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Stocks dropped in early trading, with Wall Street taking few chances amid concerns that shrinking credit is hurting the economy.
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Wall Street banks have failed to unload $220 billion of debt, which financed a wide range of major corporate buyouts initiated over the past two years, and that backlog is choking the credit markets despite recent efforts by the Federal Reserve and Treasury to invigorate the economy.
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Two Wall Street investment banks had dramatically different success in weathering market turbulence triggered by a subprime mortgage meltdown, as results at Goldman Sachs Group Inc  easily exceeded expectations while those at Bear Stearns Cos Inc  fell far short.
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Wall Street stocks battled through another volatile session on Tuesday to end in positive territory but not before the major indices had fluctuated wildly amid continuing credit market anxiety.
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Wall Street stocks endured a volatile session on Wednesday in which a $7.9bn writedown at Merrill Lynch revived worries about banks' exposure to risky investments.