Banking Jitters Send European Shares Down

Experts remain skeptical a $700 billion US bailout will ease credit woes
By Jim O'Neill,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 29, 2008 6:59 AM CDT
Banking Jitters Send European Shares Down
Brokers work at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, central Germany.   (AP Photo/Daniel Roland)

Investors drove share prices down across Europe and Asia as bank emergencies multiplied  and news of the $700-billion US bailout deal failed to loosen up frozen credit markets, reports Bloomberg. British mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley was taken over by regulators and a trio of European governments jumped in to pull financial-services firm Fortis back from the brink. 

French bank Dexia saw its shares plunge 23% on rumors it would launch an emergency round of funding and the German government offered a $50 billion bailout to commercial property lender Hypo Real Estate Holdings after its shares plummeted 62%. Experts remain unconvinced that the US bailout will unlock money markets. “The banking crisis is not over,” one fund manager tells Bloomberg.

(More credit market chaos stories.)

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