Dionice su jučer na Wall Streetu zabilježile rast, za što je, prema mišljenju, analitičara zaslužna poruka američke središnje banke (FED) kako se američko gospodarstvo oporavlja te kako neće dizati kamatne stope već će one ostati na rekordno niskim razinama.
Dow Jones indeks ojačao je, 0,41 posto i ostvario vrijednost od 10.236 bodova. S&P 500 indeks narastao je 0,49 posto, na 1.097 bodova, dok je tehnološki Nasdaq ojačao 0,80 posto i ostvario vrijednost od 2.221 boda.
Iako je početkom trgovanja zabilježen pad cijena dionica na Wall Streetu, vodeći su se indeksi oporavili kada je Fed objavio da se gospodarstvo nastavlja oporavljati te da će ključna kamatna stopa ostati nepromijenjena, od 0 do 0,25 posto.
A key question at the heart of the controversial bailout of AIG is just how much money the government lost. The Federal Reserve and Treasury Department have worked to keep that number secret and to conceal who was on the winning end. An unredacted document obtained by the Huffington Post list the damage in detail. Goldman Sachs alone, for instance, got $14 billion in government money for assets worth $6 billion at the time -- a de facto $8 billion subsidy, courtesy of taxpayers. The list was produced as part of a congressional investigation led by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee into the federal bailout of AIG. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then led by now-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, purchased a slew of souring assets from the world\'s biggest banks for 100 cents on the dollar in November and December 2008. A scathing report by a government watchdog held Geithner responsible for the overpayments. The New York Fed initially pressured AIG to keep the list hidden from investors, regulators and the public. When it was eventually filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the SEC allowed the Fed and AIG to keep the details secret. A heavily-redacted version was made public last March. The document is part of 250,000 pages of internal documents on the AIG deliberations subpoenaed by the oversight committee. It lists the toxic mortgage bonds that banks insured through AIG. Those insurance contracts, called credit default swaps, are what the New York Fed ultimately took off AIG\'s books, paying the banks 100 cents on the dollar for toxic mortgage bonds -- home mortgages that were bundled together and securitized. The banks could never have gotten anywhere near such a generous deal on the open market, so the move served essentially as a direct subsidy to those banks from taxpayers.