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Summary Results Of FEI Survey-U.S. Treasury Financial Stability Plan

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FEI Survey on U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Stability Plan

Summary of Survey Results

 

 

 

Feb. 25, 2009

 

 

 

On Feb. 10, 2009 U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner presented the Obama administration's Financial Stability Plan in a live speech in Washington, D.C. Highlights can be found in this FEI summary. Details are available on a special Treasury Department website www.financialstability.gov.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Do you believe the Financial Stability Plan will help your company?

Yes

 

21

15%

No

 

90

63%

Don't know

 

32

22%

Total

143

100%

 

 

 

 

2. Do you believe the Financial Stability Plan will help the economy?

Yes

 

39

28%

No

 

77

55%

Don't know

 

25

18%

Total

141

100%

 

 

 

 

3. Do you believe credit will become more readily available as a result of the Financial

    Stability Plan?

Yes

 

22

15%

No, because of hard to value troubled assets

 

21

15%

No, because of fair value/mark-to-market accounting

 

10

7%

No, because of a combination of the above

 

53

37%

Don't know

 

18

13%

Other, please specify (Click here to read narrative responses received)

 

18

13%

Total

142

100%

 

 

 

 

4. Please check all that apply-my company is

NYSE Euronext listed

 

30

21%

Nasdaq listed

 

30

21%

Listed - other U.S. exchange

 

5

4%

Listed - other international exchange

 

4

3%

Private company-not listed

 

67

47%

I am presently not employed 

 

13

9%

 

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