Tuesday, Aug 19, 2008
We’re not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we’re going to see a whopper,
Timesonline: Credit crunch may take out large US bank warns former IMF chief
The deepening toll from the global financial crisis could trigger the failure of a large US bank within months, a respected former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund claimed today, fuelling another battering for banking shares.
Professor Kenneth Rogoff, a leading academic economist, said there was yet worse news to come from the worldwide credit crunch and financial turmoil, particularly in the United States, and that a high-profile casualty among American banks was highly likely.
Among the biggest fallers in London trade were HBOS, down 6 per cent, Royal Bank of Scotland, whose shares plunged by 5 per cent, while HSBC fell 3.6 per cent.
Rising anxieties over “worse to come” in the credit crisis sent shares tumbling in Europe and Asia.
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