É... parece que o cenário americano ainda está longe de ser uma Brastemp...e lembra a letra de uma velha canção: a fonte secou, quero dizer que entre nós...
"Banks struggling to recover from multibillion-dollar losses on real estate are curtailing loans to American businesses, depriving even healthy companies of money for expansion and hiring.
Two vital forms of credit used by companies — commercial and industrial loans from banks, and short-term “commercial paper” not backed by collateral — collectively dropped almost 3 percent over the last year, to $3.27 trillion from $3.36 trillion, according to Federal Reserve data. That is the largest annual decline since the credit tightening that began with the last recession, in 2001.
The scarcity of credit has intensified the strains on the economy by withholding capital from many companies, just as joblessness grows and consumers pull back from spending in the face of high gas prices, plummeting home values and mounting debt."
Para ler o resto da reportagem do PETER S. GOODMAN( NYTimes, 28.07.08)http://www.nytimes.com/
