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Banks lose their cast address on the aback of sub-prime crisis

Market capitalisation is not the alone affair demography a battering from the agitation in the banking area – cast ethics are aswell coast as once-stable institutions go to the wall.

Seven of the 10 top 50 brands that fell in amount in the year to June were banks. Between them their names absent added than $10bn (£5.5bn) of their cachet, according to the anniversary Interbrand survey, which uses approaching assets estimates, the role of the cast and all-embracing chump adherence assessments to body its alliance table.

Citi was the better loser, falling from 10th to 19th position as some $3.3bn was wiped off the amount of its brand. Merrill Lynch absent just beneath than $3bn, added than a fifth of its antecedent amount – which, with hindsight, looks like prescience. UBS absent added than $1bn and Morgan Stanley $1.6bn.

Because the calculations are alone to June, and do not yield into annual this week's confidence-shattering developments, the absolute account for the banks is even worse, said Rune Gustafson, arch controlling of Interbrand. "This was already a trend on the aback of the sub-prime mortgage problems and the acclaim crunch, and that will absolutely accept been affronted since," he said.

Elsewhere in the business jungle, things are beneath gloomy. The all-embracing amount of the top 100 brands has developed by 5 per cent, even in the bosom of such boundless bread-and-butter uncertainty. "There is a able sense, throughout the league, that in ambiguous markets the appliance of, and charge for, able brands continues to exist," said Mr Gustafson.

Coca-Cola retains the top spot, with an estimated cast amount of $6.7bn. IBM, Microsoft, GE and Nokia accomplish up the blow of the top five. Google is the better riser – muscling into the top 10 for the aboriginal time with a massive 43 per cent advance in its cast value. Hi-tech groups are accomplishing able-bodied beyond the board, with Apple, Amazon and Nintendo ascent fast.

The car industry has two belief to tell. Companies that accept accumbent themselves with environmentalism, such as Toyota, are seeing cogent rises in cast value. Those slower to acknowledge are suffering. Ford was one of the year's better drops, falling by 12 per cent, or added than $1bn.

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