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: The French ''BNP Paribas'' bank announces that it is unable to value bonds backed by US house mortgages[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&refer=home&sid=aNIJ.UO9Pzxw]<br> | : The French ''BNP Paribas'' bank announces that it is unable to value bonds backed by US house mortgages[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&refer=home&sid=aNIJ.UO9Pzxw]<br> | ||
: The [[interbank market]] is near collapse [http://www.gata.org/node/5802]. | |||
September 2007 | |||
: The UK ''Northern Rock'' bank suffers a [[Run (banking)| bank run]] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6996136.stm] | |||
March 2008 | |||
:The US ''Bear Stearns'' [[investment bank]] is rescued [http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1438968020080315]. | |||
August 2008 | |||
:The US government-sponsored house mortgage lenders [[Fannie Mae]] and [[Freddie Mac]] are rescued from [[bankruptcy]] [http://nreionline.com/property/multifamily/real_estate_senate_okays_fannie/]. | |||
September 2008 | |||
: The US ''Lehman Brothers'' [[investment bank]] is [[bankruptcy|bankrupt]] [http://www.lehman.com/press/pdf_2008/091508_lbhi_chapter11_announce.pdf][http://lehmanreport.jenner.com/][http://www.sec.gov/news/testimony/2010/ts042010mls.htm] with losses of $365 billion to insurers of its bonds. $785m worth of its [[fund]]s are written off and [[money market]] investors suffer a massive loss [http://www.usnews.com/blogs/new-money/2008/9/17/reserve-primary-fund-investors-may-lose.html]. | |||
: There is panic in the [[money market]] and a halt in trading in the [[interbank market]]. | |||
: There are multiple bank failures and rescues in the United States and Europe. | |||
::''(See [[Crash of 2008/Timelines#The Crash stage 3 (September - December 2008)|The Crash stage 3/September]] timeline of the [[Crash of 2008]] article). | |||
==Recession== | ==Recession== | ||
Revision as of 03:44, 4 February 2011
Prelude (trends: January 2000 to June 2007)
Capital flows:
- Flows of capital into the advanced countries, rising from about 8 per cent of world GDP in 2002 to about 16 per cent in 2007
US Monetary policy
- Progressive discount rate reductions by the Federal Reserve reducing the federal funds rate from 6 per cent in 2000 to 1 per cent in 2003, followed by increases to 5.25 per cent in 2006)[1].
US housing boom and bust
- The average house price rises by 80% [2] between 2001 and 2006 and then falls by 8% from its 2006 peak to mid-2007 .
Financial crisis (June 2007 to November 2008)
June 2007
- US Credit rating agencies downgrade over 100 bonds backed by subprime mortgages.
- Two of the Bear Stearns'' investment bank's hedge funds are threatened by losses from mortgage defaults [3].
August 2007
- The French BNP Paribas bank announces that it is unable to value bonds backed by US house mortgages[4]
- The interbank market is near collapse [5].
September 2007
March 2008
- The US Bear Stearns investment bank is rescued [7].
August 2008
- The US government-sponsored house mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are rescued from bankruptcy [8].
September 2008
- The US Lehman Brothers investment bank is bankrupt [9][10][11] with losses of $365 billion to insurers of its bonds. $785m worth of its funds are written off and money market investors suffer a massive loss [12].
- There is panic in the money market and a halt in trading in the interbank market.
- There are multiple bank failures and rescues in the United States and Europe.
- (See The Crash stage 3/September timeline of the Crash of 2008 article).