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Banking stocks, the US dollar, bond prices and Bitcoin have all crashed as the world stands on the brink of a new financial meltdown. How bad will it be?
California-based Silicon Valley Bank collapsed on Friday morning after it suffered a bank run and capital crisis.
SVB was the second-largest banking failure in US history, yet nobody saw this coming. As recently as Wednesday, all seemed well at the respected bank.
Then it surprised investors with news that it needed to raise $2.25billion (£1.875bn) to shore up its balance sheet, and all hell broke loose.
Terrified depositors and investors raced to pull their money, causing a run on the bank. Yesterday, regulators shut it down before more damage was done.
SVB isn’t the only US financial institutions to go to the wall this month. Its collapse came two days after Federal Reserve member bank Silvergate went into liquidation, after racking up huge losses on crypto trading.
The big question now is how far the contagion spreads.
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/p...risis-Silicon-Valley-Bank-SVB-meltdown-stocks
Banking stocks, the US dollar, bond prices and Bitcoin have all crashed as the world stands on the brink of a new financial meltdown. How bad will it be?
California-based Silicon Valley Bank collapsed on Friday morning after it suffered a bank run and capital crisis.
SVB was the second-largest banking failure in US history, yet nobody saw this coming. As recently as Wednesday, all seemed well at the respected bank.
Then it surprised investors with news that it needed to raise $2.25billion (£1.875bn) to shore up its balance sheet, and all hell broke loose.
Terrified depositors and investors raced to pull their money, causing a run on the bank. Yesterday, regulators shut it down before more damage was done.
SVB isn’t the only US financial institutions to go to the wall this month. Its collapse came two days after Federal Reserve member bank Silvergate went into liquidation, after racking up huge losses on crypto trading.
The big question now is how far the contagion spreads.
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/p...risis-Silicon-Valley-Bank-SVB-meltdown-stocks
