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On Monday, the weekend's turmoil yields triple trouble.
Stocks fall sharply Monday on a triptych of Wall Street woe: Lehman Brothers' [LEHMQ
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What You Were Reading:
- Gartman: Goldman, Morgan Stanley Will Survive
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The damage reports were dire.
"You're waking up to a materially smaller net worth than you had Friday afternoon, there's going to be margin clerk panic liquidation in the first hour or two of the stock markets here in the U.S.," says Dennis Gartman, founder of the Gartman Letter, tells CNBC. But he believes the Lehman collapse is unlikely to bring any more investment bank bankruptcies.
Ten giant banks agree to set up a collateralized borrowing facility, and commit to fund $7 billion each. The banks are Bank of America, Barclays [BCS
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Oppenheimer's Meredith Whitney predicts that the worst is likely to come: "What this does is to exacerbate the credit crunch because it pulls so much liquidity out of an already strapped market,” she tells CNBC.
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Major indexes break through their July lows: The Dow careens 504.48, or 4.4 percent, to close at 10917.51. (The last time the Dow lost more than 500 points in a single session was Sept. 17, 2001.) The S&P 500 tumbles 4.7 percent to close at 1192.96, while the Nasdaq loses 3.6 percent. The CBOE Volatility Index jumps above 30.
What the Experts Were Saying:
Wilbur Ross, chairman & CEO of WL Ross, believes there will be 1,000 U.S. bank failures before the end of the financial crisis.
Mad Money host Jim Cramer warns: Letting AIG collapse would be a "tragedy."
Meredith Whitney of Oppenheimer discusses the future of Wall Street with Maria Bartiromo.
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