How Will It Affect Me ? Bankers Start To Worry

THE KAMADA INDEX - Two weeks ago we asked you to give us your latest thoughts on how you felt about current market conditions. We have compared them to the same statistics we took one month previously. And here's how things stacked up:

44.7% of respondents admitted that they were scared of losing their jobs. Interestingly, however, despite continuing problems in the financial markets, this had not significantly increased over the month. 24.4% actually said they thought that their jobs were totally secure, an increase of 5%.

Ever the optimists, 56.9% of bankers thought that the worst of the credit-crunch was behind us, although 40.1% (an increase of 6%) thought that their bonuses this year-end would be no bigger than that paid for 2006.

45.2% said that they thought that stock markets had peaked this cycle (an increase of 6%), 37.6% said that they thought inflation would rise (an increase of 8%) and 67.5% said that they believed that property prices would go no higher in the coming months (an increase of 3%).

As this information was taken before the revelations about further problems at Merrill Lynch and Citi, we will be measuring market sentiment via our Kamada Index again in the next 2 weeks.

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