-->n-tv berichtet, dass zwei große Hedge-Fonds von Bear Stearns letzte Nacht fast geschlossen werden mussten, weil ein Rettungsplan am Geldgeber Merrill Lynch scheiterte. Die Hedge-Fonds hatten in Finanzinstrumente investiert, welche auf Hypotheken basieren.

Schon möglich. Damit lässt sich aber leider kaum Geld verdienen. Besser gefallen mir Day Software (empfohlen unter 30 CHF, aktuell 56.50 CHF), Swisslog, Precious Woods und International Minerals.

Viel Erfolg!

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(Bloomberg) -- The worst is yet to come for the U.S. housing market. The jump in 30-year mortgage rates by more than a half a percentage point to 6.74 percent in the past five weeks is putting a crimp on borrowers with the best credit just as a crackdown in subprime lending standards limits the pool of qualified buyers. The national median home price is poised for its first annual decline since the Great Depression, and the supply of unsold homes is at a record 4.2 million, according to the National Association of Realtors."It's a blood bath,'' said Mark Kiesel, executive vice president of Newport Beach, California-based Pacific Investment Management Co., the manager of $668 billion in bond funds. ``We're talking about a two- to three-year downturn that will take a whole host of characters with it, from job creation to consumer confidence. Eventually it will take the stock market and corporate profit.''