Sunday, February 22, 2009

When the going gets bad.... We Nationalize ?

Want to see how bad things are? Just look at these charts.

The first is Citibank :

citi_10yr2

That is what it has come to. Now. lets look at the next one :

This is Bank of America :

BAC10yrNot a very pretty sight either.

Now, coming to our topic, Friday saw both these companies come under tremendous pressure, anyway at 2 dollar levels what more can we say of the pressure. But the talks of imminent nationalization of American banks, that's right I did say nationalization! led to that mayhem.

Stocks tumbled on Friday, with the Dow industrials ending at a 6-1/2-year low. Uncertainty about how Washington will rescue beleaguered banks persisted even as the White House issued its most direct statement yet on banks, saying it supported a privately held banking system.

The question is can it walk the talk?

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