Poorer Americans, the first time in five years.

<P> From the Federal Reserve (Fed) data show that more than 5 years, the United States for the first time poorer families. .</ P> <P> It http://finance. Hearing, Federal Reserve data released yesterday showed that the total U.S. household wealth fell $ 533,000,000,000, to 57.718 trillion U.S. dollars, in addition to the losses caused by declining house prices, the stock and .other securities falling prices also played a role. .</ P> <P> the decline in household wealth will increase people's concern: the poorer the family, they may be belt-tightening, and may find that credit from banks or other more and more difficult to obtain credit. .</ P> <P> investors may be close scrutiny of these data, because there are growing signs that the U.S. equity and credit market concerns about the economic outlook again. .</ P> <P> the persistent credit market concerns, U.S. and European stock markets fell and the dollar continue to push commodity prices even lower highs. .At the same time, the U.S. and European investment grade credit index reached a record well above the target level. .</ P> <P> on Carlyle Capital Corporation (Carlyle Capital) and Thornburg Mortgage news of margin call problems, and display the fourth quarter of last year's U.S. mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures reached record levels in the data, to continue .help push the market in risk aversion. .</ P> <P> in the world's major central bankers this weekend's meeting in Basel, will carefully study the data. .</ P> <P> 3 months ago a similar meeting for the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank (ECB) and other monetary authorities announced an unprecedented collaboration currency market intervention paved the way for some investors hope that central bankers will again take .similar actions. .However, given the current economic problems in the U.S. seem more serious than in other regions is not clear whether countries there is consensus on the new intervention. .</ P> <P> Federal Reserve data show that the fourth quarter of last year, the United States the proportion of homeowners have home equity plunged to 47.9% overall, due to falling house prices, while its mortgage loans did not decline. .</ P> <P> consider that this is an average figure, and some families have little or no mortgage debt, which means that (Housing), the proportion of negative equity there may have increased substantially. .</ P>.