Goldman Sachs leaden Asian stock markets
Nikkei were down 1.72% at 10,910 points, Hang Seng down 1.58% at 21,519 points, Singapore Strait Times, 1.45%, to 2963 points, and & P / ASX austrialien, 1, 34% to 4918 points … The major stock market indices of the Asian region skid, while the SEC, the U.S. stock market authority, says the bank Goldman Sachs for fraud related to subprime. A procedure that opens others, spreading the shock wave wiped throughout the weekend by the news.Other banks, like UBS, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch, could also be investigated by the SEC, the Wall Street Journal.
In addition, expectations of rising interest rates in several countries in the area, where inflation is threatening more and more, reduce appetite for risk that investors had recovered in recent weeks, analysts of HSBC.
Oil retreats always
Crude prices were down sharply Monday in electronic trading in Asia, continuing their decline last week, dealers said.
In morning trading, a barrel of light sweet crude for May delivery fell by 1.49 dollars to 81.75 dollars while Brent North Sea with identical maturity, yielded $ 1.11 to 84 $ 88.
On Friday, oil prices had fallen back sharply in New York, a barrel of benchmark dropping more than two dollars in closing an index of consumer confidence in the U.S. amid disappointing and marked increase in U.S. currency.
The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has signed an agreement with Caracas to support the extraction of oil for 25 years in the region of the Orinoco Belt, Venezuela. Cost of operation: 20 billion dollars.The oil production at the site would represent 2.9 billion barrels, according to the Chinese company.
Toyota will pay
Japanese carmaker Toyota (-2.16% to 3,615 yen) will pay a record fine of 16.375 million (12.2 million) dollars imposed by U.S. authorities for several months in hiding for his problems accelerator, officials said Sunday night from government sources.
"By paying the entire civil penalty, Toyota accepts responsibility for hiding the safety issue of road safety agency, in violation of the law," said a senior U.S. Department of Transportation.
The Japanese automaker has also recalled some 870,000 Sienna minivans type in North America last Friday.
