Koffiekamer Terug naar discussie overzicht

Katrina, wie zal dat betalen?

1. [verwijderd] 29 augustus 2005 10:10

   auteur info

   • [verwijderd]

     Lid sinds: 01 jan 0001

     Laatste bezoek: 01 jan 0001

   • Aanbevelingen

     Ontvangen: 0

     Gegeven: 0

   •    Aantal posts: 0

   Worden dit goede tijden voor de oil sands??De toekomst zal het uitwijzen.
   
   Groeten
2. Bart Meerdink 29 augustus 2005 12:33

   auteur info

   • Bart Meerdink

     Lid sinds: 01 jan 2000

     Laatste bezoek: 28 mrt 2025

   • Aanbevelingen

     Ontvangen: 2252

     Gegeven: 1097

   •    Aantal posts: 6.933

   quote:

   simi500 schreef:

   Worden dit goede tijden voor de oil sands??De toekomst zal het uitwijzen.
   
   Groeten
   

   Volgens mij zijn het al geruime tijd goede tijden voor de oil sands, zeker als ze de technieken verder kunnen vebeteren om efficienter en minder milieubelastend te werken.
   
   Wat Katrina betreft, ze schijnt net iets ten oosten van New Orleans aan land te gaan, en de meest actieve kant is de oostelijke kant (niet die van New Orleans dus). Dus niet helemaal het worst case scenario.
   
   Vandaar dat de beurs wat herstelt.
3. ycdtosay 29 augustus 2005 15:33

   auteur info

   • ycdtosay

     Lid sinds: 11 jul 2002

     Laatste bezoek: 18 okt 2024

   • Aanbevelingen

     Ontvangen: 44

     Gegeven: 113

   •    Aantal posts: 559

   Op de FT site 30 miljard US$:
   European insurance shares fell early on Monday as one US storm assessment group estimated that the cost to the industry of Hurricane Katrina could reach a record $30bn.
   
   Allianz, Europe’s biggest insurer, and reinsurers such as Munich Re and Swiss Re all suffered declines. Reinsurers, which underwrite insurance companies’ liabilities, were among the hardest hit.
   
   (meer op news.ft.com/cms/s/ccd955f8-1867-11da-...
   
   Willem
4. [verwijderd] 7 september 2005 17:46

   auteur info

   • [verwijderd]

     Lid sinds: 01 jan 0001

     Laatste bezoek: 01 jan 0001

   • Aanbevelingen

     Ontvangen: 0

     Gegeven: 0

   •    Aantal posts: 0

   Hurricane Katrina to Increase Joblessness
   
   Wednesday September 7, 10:30 am ET
   By Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer
   Katrina to Reduce Employment by 400,000 People and Lower Economic Growth, CBO Predicts
   
   WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hurricane Katrina will reduce employment by 400,000 people in coming months while trimming economic growth by as much as a full percentage point in the second half of this year, according to a Congressional Budget Office assessment obtained by The Associated Press.
   
   In the first government estimate of Katrina's economic impact, the CBO said that if gasoline prices around the country spike by 40 percent in September, that development alone would reduce overall economic growth by 0.4 percent in the current July-September quarter and by 0.9 percent in the fourth quarter of this year.
   
   But the report said that impact would be temporary as gasoline prices returned to pre-Katrina levels and overall consumer spending rebounded.
   
   The CBO report said that Katrina's impact was likely to be "significant but not overwhelming" to the overall U.S. economy, especially if energy production along the Gulf Coast returns to pre-hurricane levels quickly.
   
   "Last week, it appeared that larger economic impacts might occur, but despite continued uncertainty, progress in opening refineries and restarting pipelines now makes those larger impacts less likely," CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said in a letter to congressional leaders.
   
   The CBO assessment was in line with the predicted impact of Katrina being made by many private forecasters, who have also cautioned that the effects could be much worse if rising energy prices cause consumers to cut back on their spending.
   
   The CBO report said that it expected economic growth in the second half of the year would be reduced by between 0.5 percentage point and 1 percentage point. It put total job losses at around 400,000.
   
   CBO, the nonpartisan agency that provides economic and budget advice to Congress, said before Katrina struck the expectations were that the economy would grow at an annual rate of between 3 percent and 4 percent in the second half of the year with employment growing by 150,000 to 200,000 workers per month.
   
   Already, federal cost estimates for relief and recovery efforts are running as high as $150 billion, adding another broader economic impact -- a worsening deficit picture.
   
   The White House, with considerable fanfare, announced in July a $94 billion improvement in the red-ink outlook for the current budget year. At that time, it promised that President Bush would easily fulfill his pledge to cut last's year's record deficit in half by the time he leaves office.
   
   The White House budget office in July was predicting that the deficit for the budget year ending Sept. 30 would drop to $333 billion, $79 billion below last year's record, and that next year's deficit would be $341 billion. Now, both figures are rising fast as the government spends about $2 billion a day on the Katrina relief effort, all of which adds directly to the deficit.
   
   Holtz-Eakin said in his letter to congressional leaders that the adverse impacts from Katrina should be concentrated in the second half of this year and he said that economic activity could receive a boost next year from rebuilding.
   
   However, he cautioned that the positive impacts could take longer to be felt because rebuilding may take longer to get started this time around.
   
   For all of 2005, CBO had been predicting that the economy, as measured by the gross domestic product, would grow by 3.7 percent this year and 3.4 percent in 2006. Holtz-Eakin said the impact of Katrina on these year-over-year estimates was likely to be smaller than the effects on growth in the third and fourth quarters of this year.
   
   The CBO report said that the economy of Louisiana was about 1.2 percent of the U.S. economy and Mississippi was about 0.7 percent of the national economy. If half of that output were lost for three months -- September through November -- then it would lower total GDP for the country at an annualized rate of about 1.3 percentage points in the third quarter and 2.7 percentage points in the final three months of the year.
   
   But the CBO said it was unlikely that production will be hurt by that much for that length of time.
   
   "Presumably some people in New Orleans and other parts of the coast will be able to return to work in one or two months, and construction employment will be picking up during the fourth quarter," the CBO said. "Therefore, it is more likely that economic activity in the affected area would directly reduce the growth of GDP by less than 1 percent for both the third and fourth quarters."
   
   The report said the main areas expected to experience "prolonged and substantial disruption of economic activity" are the New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner metropolitan area of Louisiana and the Gulfport-Biloxi and Pascagoula area of Mississippi.
   
   It predicted that employment for September will decline significantly with estimates ranging from a drop of 150,000 to as much as a loss of a half million jobs.
   
   The CBO said preliminary estimates put insured losses from Katrina in excess of $30 billion, a figure that it compared to the $32.5 billion that insurers paid after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
   
   Associated Press Special Correspondent David Espo contributed to this story.
   
   biz.yahoo.com/ap/050907/katrina_econo...