wegen dubioser Geschäfte oder Bilanzen wird immer länger,heute war es Qwest (Q)
die zugaben unter Beschuss geraten zu sein und 32 % fielen,gestern war es Halliburton.Die Anleger sind einfach das Ganze müde und gehen raus,so die übereinstimmende Meinung der Analysten.Hinzu kommt der drohende Krieg gegen Irak,die Terrorismushysterie,die Insidervorwürfe gegen Bush und Cheney.Ne ,wo soll denn da bessere Stimmung herkommen? Allenfalls die nachbörslichen Zahlen lassen einen Rebound vermuten,aber das gibt noch lange keine bessere Stimmung oder Kehrtwende.Immer dieser Zweckoptimismus der Banken und Analysten.
hier die Meldung von Qwest:
Shares of Qwest Communications plummeted 32 percent Wednesday after the financially beleaguered phone carrier said the U.S. attorney's office in Denver launched a criminal probe.News of the investigation triggered a short trading halt in Qwest stock. On Wednesday, shares fell 83 cents to $1.77.
Qwest said it plans to "fully cooperate," but noted that the U.S. attorney's office did not disclose the nature of the investigation.
Almost certainly, the probe will focus on the financial practices of Qwest during the tenure of former Chief Executive Joseph Nacchio, who resigned under pressure last month.
Qwest is already subject to a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into how it accounted for the sale of network capacity in so-called swaps.
Critics charge that the company used the swaps to artificially boost results without any actual gain in new business.
In June, Qwest replaced Nacchio with Richard Notebaert, the former CEO of Ameritech. The Midwestern Baby Bell was sold to SBC Communications
Nacchio was forced out amid a nose dive in Qwest's core local and long-distance phone operations, which sent its stock plunging more than 90 percent since it peaked at nearly $58 in mid-2000.
Notebaert's first goal is to reduce the company's immense debt burden -- more than $26 billion at last count -- and stave off the threat of bankruptcy.
Like other phone companies, Qwest's growth stalled once the economy cooled off. That forced carriers to chop prices so much that many struggled to pay their debts. Since the slump began, Qwest has sliced more than 17,000 jobs, taken the ax to capital spending and jettisoned noncore assets.
The phone industry is reeling from the fallout of a speculative boom, which triggered an orgy of overbuilding and prompted companies to take on huge debts.
