The great US bailout - the plus points
As news starts to filter through that the US government is currently putting together a huge rescue package which will see the authorities' takeover literally hundreds of billions of defunct investments and loans, what are the consequences?
The plus points :-
The bailout is being quoted in the hundreds of billions of dollars bracket and is set to see liquidity return to money markets and oil the wheels of industry. Without liquidity businesses and whole sectors would quite literally die and disappear.
The move is sure to increase confidence in the new improved system which is planned for the future. Many are comparing the proposed package to that which bailed the US out of the Savings and Loans scandal.
There will be an enormous knock on affect to the rest of the world, something which is already evident as stock markets show their largest one day gains in history
These are just three factors which will quite literally change the face of the financial markets overnight, and hopefully herald a new cautious approach by the banking institutions. The markets were literally on the edge of the abyss and have been pulled back by the US authorities.
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