Stoning & Riots In Pakistan
Wenn man bedenkt das fast die ganze westliche Finanzwelt inzwischen monatlich staatliche Hilfen bekommt ist die Reaktion nicht weiter verwunderlich..... Wenn man sich den Karachi Stock Index Chart ansieht steht zu befürchten das die nächsten Ausschreitungen nur eine Frage der zeit sind.....
More Pictures via FTD & Barry Ritholtz .
From Barry comes also this quote.....
Ebenfalls von Barry kommt diese mehr als treffende Bemerkung.....
Surprisingly, no one in Karachi blamed short sellers or rumors . .
Rioting Over Stock Prices Floyd Norris NYT
According to a Bloomberg report, investors rioted in Pakistan today. The head of an organization of small investors is quoted as demanding the government freeze share prices so people can get out without losing more money.
The authorities have tried. They banned short sales and they put in circuit breakers to limit daily declines to 1 percent. The result was that volume plunged, since few were willing to buy at prices that were artificially held up.
Now the exchange will try a fund to buy stocks, while removing the earlier impediments to selling. That may not work for long either.
Pakistan has unique problems, such as two factions in Parliament that agree only on opposing the president and the war in neighboring Afghanistan. But its stock market situation is all too common.
Foreign investors, enamored of emerging markets, poured in cash and sent prices soaring. That drew in small local investors.
Now the foreigners are fleeing, partly for country-specific reasons and partly because they are newly risk averse. Having lost a lot at home, they are less eager to take chances overseas.
It is more than a little odd that a crisis with roots in American home mortgage abuses has led to Pakistanis losing life savings. In some cases, the lost savings could not have financed one month’s payment on some of the crazy mortgages offered to subprime borrowers in the United States.
Aren’t globally linked markets wonderful?
> I can´t help myself but everytime i hear the word stoning this scene from one of my favourite movie comes to my mind.....
Dabei haben die Pakistani eigentlich keinen Grund, sich zu beschweren. Zumindest langfristig gesehen. Denn bevor der Kursverfall der vergangenen Wochen einsetzte, haben sich die Kurse seit 2001 vervierzehnfacht. Doch mit der Hausse ist es nun erst einmal vorbei. Und vermutlich kommen die goldenen Zeiten auch so schnell nicht wieder. Zumindest sprechen dafür zunehmende politische und wirtschaftliche Probleme.
> Mir fällt beim Wort Steinigungen / Steinwürfen spontan immer diese Szene aus einem meiner Lieblingsfilme ein..... :-)

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