Which balloon will burst after Dubai? How the threat of credit echoed Arab Emirates? Is it an isolated phenomenon or a debt crisis heralded a new wave of bankruptcies? These are questions that are trying to find solutions to two analysts from New York Times. So far, investors do not succumb to panic, but the big banks have granted loans to fund state the investment – Dubai World and its subsidiary development company Nakheel anxiously assessing their potential vulnerability to a possible chain reaction of bankruptcies if Emirates not fulfill their promises to help. Does not happen, which was declared by the common central bank of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to give money to the fund and the construction company, not to fall into a liquidity crisis, with huge debts may prove to be not only individual corporations and banks, but governments and objectives. All creditors from the Baltic to the Mediterranean looking for money, although theirs is the blame for the unprecedented credit boom. Already are piling up deficits in the budgets of not a few countries that drew money for anti-crisis programs. Government debt is growing even in a country like Germany, which has long been a bastion of strict fiscal policy. The external debt of Bulgaria, Hungary and the Baltic countries grew as part of GDP, say the authors of the New York Times. However, they believe that it can be expected similar to the Dubai situation in other countries of the world. But that does not mean that nations will go to save individual companies from bankruptcy.
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After a painful downturn last week, most stock indexes in Asia and the Pacific region began this week with significant increases. Optimism prevailed among investors after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said they would support their banks, which fell into difficulty because of the insolvency of the investment fund Dubai World. Most local currencies rose, and risk premiums on corporate bonds fell. The regional index MSCI Asia Pacific, which monitors the securities markets in ten Asian countries plus Australia and New Zealand, rose 3.5 percent to 117.85 points. This is the strongest measure of stock market growth since the beginning of April this year. Today, the UAE central bank said it stands behind the credit companies in the seven Arab Emirates, and the government of China confirmed that it will not hurry to withdraw its measures to support the economy. The financial companies in the composition of the MSCI Asia Pacific contributed most to the strong increase of the index today after last week suffered the most along the news about the financial problems of Dubai. The main stock index fell in Dubai with a record 7.2 percent last year, and the Abu Dhabi stock slid more than 8%. Today was the first business day of the exchanges in the UAE, which closed late last week because of holidays in the Arab world. The Japanese Nikkei 225 rose by 2.9 percent to 9345.6 points. Shares of exporting companies rose, although the rate of the yen against the dollar increased by 0.7 percent today. This increases the cost of Japanese goods companies abroad. In India, the BSE Sensex 30 rose 1.7 percent to 914.1 points to 16 after the country’s economy grew more than expected by 7.9 percent for the period July-September compared to last year.
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