Did SocGen trades trigger market rout, Fed cut?
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LONDON/PARIS  - Societe Generale's shock disclosure of a fraud that lost it $7 billion has left investors wondering about a link between the fiasco and Monday's European stock market rout.
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WALL Street is said to be a bit rattled at the Federal Reserveâs latest quarter-point rise in American interest rates. Yesterdayâs one-third drop in quarterly profit announced by investment bank Morgan Stanleyâs will not help the jitters.
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European stock markets ended the day roughly where they began as investors balanced news of unexpected banking losses at Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS) against better results from Barclays (NYSE:BCS).
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Global stock markets saw some relief from the mayhem of the past few days as the US Federal Reserve's surprise rate cut helped stem the massive losses seen around the world.
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Does the Fed cut spell big returns for Dell, Garmin, Microsoft, and Yahoo?
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European equity markets jumped on Thursday after Wall Street's sharp rally allowed the region's financial stocks to shake off news of a massive fraud at French bank Soci&eacute;t&eacute; G&eacute;n&eacute;rale.
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Wall Street cheers Bernanke's big cut. Should the rest of us be as excited?
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European equity markets struggled to make gains on Tuesday as sentiment remained fragile ahead of the meeting of the US Federal Reserve which was widely expected to produce a cut in US interest rates in response to ongoing turmoil in money markets.
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A look at how Societe General's trading scandal unfolded:
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The Federal Reserve's interest-rate cut yesterday failed to prevent a wild day on Wall Street, as the Dow Jones industrial average dove from the outset of trading and mustered two rallies that ultimately fell short, sending the market precariously close to bear territory.
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European equities turned swiftly higher after the US Federal Reserve surprised the markets with an emergency cut in the Fed funds rate by 75 basis points.
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US stocks skidded but averted a meltdown Tuesday amid a global financial market panic that prompted an unprecedented 75-basis-point rate cut by the Federal Reserve.
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Wall Street extended last weekâs losses in early trading as investors remained skeptical that the Federal Reserveâs first credit auction will be effective in loosening up a tight market.
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Leading shares closed sharply higher Tuesday, where the big news of the day was the US Federal Reserve's decision to slash interest rates by 0.75 percent, however it was not enough to ease fears over a recession in the US as Wall Street dropped.
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Stocks recovered Wednesday from the previous session's brutal selloff, helped by comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Tuesday's market meltdown was triggered by a sharp fall in Chinese shares and signs of U.S. economic weakness.
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â¢ 2008: French bank Societe Generale uncovers an alleged $7.14 billion fraud by a futures trader who fooled investors and overstepped his authority.
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The Dow and the S&P 500 rose on Tuesday on expectations the Federal Reserve will again cut interest rates to shore up the economy, but worries about technology profits and outlooks limited a broader advance, causing the Nasdaq to dip in the red.