Prolonged Crisis Predicted

ft.com — Wall Street stocks were set for a lower start after a leading banking analyst said the credit crisis will extend well into 2009 and possibly beyond and a rise in core inflation threatened to trim corporate profits and consumer spending. According to Meredith Whitney and a team of analysts, the extended credit crisis will results in "multi-billion dollar revenue reversals" and further significant writedowns and loan loss provisions.

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