Housing price declines remain the greatest challenge to financial
markets and could prompt a deep recession, according to
Pimco’s Bill Gross.
The S&P Case-Shiller home price index continued its
sharp decline in February as both the 10-city and 20-city composite
indexes posted record annual declines in excess of 12.5%.
Speaking in an interview with Fox Business news on Monday evening,
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he did not
believe that a second fiscal stimulus package was
necessary and that the tax rebates mailed out yesterday would make a real
difference to GDP.
The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index fell
to 62.3 in April’s report on Tuesday, confirming declines seen earlier in
the month from other measures of consumer sentiment, yet coming in
slightly higher than the consensus expectation of 62.0.
Countrywide Financial Corporation logged in on
Tuesday with its third consecutive quarterly loss due to a sharp increase
it its provision for loan losses.
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