De financiële markten reageren altijd op binnenlandse onlusten, waar ook ter wereld. De Spanjaarden kibbelden deze week rond de rekening B van señor Bárcenas. Gevolg: dalende beurskoersen plus een forse stijging van de Spaanse risicopremie.
In de jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw zorgde de Spaanse Burgeroorlog voor veel financiële onrust. Hoe reageerde de beursen bijvoorbeeld op de val van Barcelona, 26 januari 1939? Lees het in The Financial Times van vandaag, 74 jaar geleden:
The stockmarket fell last week three days before Barcelona. Stock prices had been weak since the first of the year and when last week’s break came they were already back at what Dow theorists call “resistance levels” (146 for Dow-Jones industrial averages, 28.8 for railroads) set by the previous reaction in November and December. Both industrial and railroad averages plummeted through these levels on heavy trading volume.
With most of Europe convinced that the fall of Barcelona was not the end of the trouble but perhaps the real beginning, war-scare was doubtless primarily to blame for the break. Brokers reported heavy liquidation from abroad. Acute weakness in foreign dollar issues led bond prices down. The Dutch guilder was weak. And, as always when Europe has the jitters, the heavy flow of gold to the U. S. quickened. In one day last week London arranged to ship £14,000,000.
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| Links de inname van Barcelona in 1939, rechts de beurs van New York in hetzelfde jaar. |
In de jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw zorgde de Spaanse Burgeroorlog voor veel financiële onrust. Hoe reageerde de beursen bijvoorbeeld op de val van Barcelona, 26 januari 1939? Lees het in The Financial Times van vandaag, 74 jaar geleden:
The stockmarket fell last week three days before Barcelona. Stock prices had been weak since the first of the year and when last week’s break came they were already back at what Dow theorists call “resistance levels” (146 for Dow-Jones industrial averages, 28.8 for railroads) set by the previous reaction in November and December. Both industrial and railroad averages plummeted through these levels on heavy trading volume.
With most of Europe convinced that the fall of Barcelona was not the end of the trouble but perhaps the real beginning, war-scare was doubtless primarily to blame for the break. Brokers reported heavy liquidation from abroad. Acute weakness in foreign dollar issues led bond prices down. The Dutch guilder was weak. And, as always when Europe has the jitters, the heavy flow of gold to the U. S. quickened. In one day last week London arranged to ship £14,000,000.
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