Will Tuesday's market be the worst since 9/11?


The New York Times reports that global stocks are crashing. Two indices, Frankfurt's DAX and Hong Kong's Hang Seng, last lost this much altitude on 9/11/01. Here are the biggest financial damages:

  • Bombay's Sensex -7.4%
  • Frankfurt's DAX -7.2%
  • Hong Kong's Hang Seng -5.5%
  • London's FTSE -5.5%
  • Shanghai's Shanghai Composite -5.1%
  • Tokyo's Nikkei 225 -3.9%

What's going on? Investors seem concerned about the pending U.S. recession. And they seem uninspired by the Bush administration's $145 billion stimulus plan to damp the severity of that recession. There was also a problem with another German bank, WestLB, which said on Monday it would report a loss of $1.4 billion in 2007 because of its exposure to deteriorating mortgage assets. Other German banks are also reporting worse than expected results.

If today's futures are any indication, the Dow Jones industrial average will lose 520 points, or more than 4% when it opens tomorrow morning.

Will you hold, sell, or buy?

Peter Cohan is president of Peter S. Cohan & Associates. He also teaches management at Babson College and edits The Cohan Letter.

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