Chart of the Day
The initial priority for resolution of the current crisis is the solvency of the banking system. Without a functioning banking system, everything else (i.e. the economy, real estate) falls apart. To that end, today's chart focuses on the all-important banking sector by providing the current trend of the KBW Bank Index. As today's chart illustrates, banking stocks were trading within the confines of an upward sloping trend channel from mid-2005 into early 2007. Then the impact of an already weakening real estate market began to take its toll. Banking stocks began to decline and as the real estate bubble/overleveraging unraveled, banking stocks began to decline at an ever increasing rate. Fast forwarding to the present, as a result of a very sharp four-day rally, banking stocks today broke through resistance (red line) of the latest (and steepest) down leg providing a glimmer (albeit faint) of hope.
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Source - Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.
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