Goldman Sachs sued for fraud related to subprime
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. stock market watchdog, said it had initiated proceedings for fraud against Goldman Sachs. The U.S. bank would have hid crucial facts about financial products affected by the subprime crisis. Fraud concerns the structuring of CDOs ("collateralized debt obligations) linked to subprime subprime.
Goldman Sachs action was immediately heavily impacted by this lawsuit.Around 17h35, the title fell by almost 14% to 160.3 dollars, bringing in its wake many financial stocks and the major world indices no fax pay day loans.
The SEC accused the bank and one of its vice-presidents, Fabrice Tourre to have misled investors by concealing important facts about the financial product concerned, while the U.S. housing market began to deteriorate.
At 15h GMT, Goldman Sachs yielded 9.7%. The KBW index of U.S. banking sector shrank at the same time 3.5% and the Stoxx European sector gave up 1.8%.
Wall Street widened its losses, the Standard & Poor's 500 yielding 1%.
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