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"We think the group's prospects remain good in the medium to long term, but near term the possibility of financially distressed Arcandor being forced into a sale of its 52.8% stake will continue to overhang the shares," Sam Hart, an analyst at Charles Stanley, wrote in a note.
Persimmon's warning that Autumn sales were not as strong as usual led the sector down.. Keith Bowman at Hargreaves Lansdown said: Mortgage availability remains constrained, public spending cuts and tax increases continue to overhang consumer confidence, whilst the rise in commodity prices could eventually impact on group costs, with timber and copper piping products potentially in the firing line.
"We believe the (North American) pressure pumping capacity concerns will continue to overhang the stock over the coming several quarters," UBS analyst Angie Sedita said in a note to investors.
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"The economy is obviously feeling the strain from cooler global conditions and the policy uncertainty that continues to overhang us here as we turn the corner on 2012 and into 2013," said Robert A. Dye, chief economist at Comerica in Dallas.
For BP, the Gulf of Mexico accident continues to overhang, with asset sales impacting production," he said.
In addition, rising advertising costs and competition in international markets "should continue to be an overhang for the shares in the intermediate term".
"It is not advisable to ignore the potential risk that the present overhang may continue to weigh negatively well into the future," the group said.
For one thing, large parts of the private sector continue to be crippled by the overhang of debt accumulated during the bubble years; this debt burden is arguably the main thing holding private spending back and perpetuating the slump.
Fourth, at the national level, individual countries need to continue to rebalance their policies with a view to achieving the trifecta of structural reforms, solid aggregate demand and fewer debt overhangs.
"The banks with this overhang of bad assets, and all the litigation, those are the ones with the big trading operations where we had the problems, continue to have the problems," Bair said.
A considerable part of the current economic strain stems from the fact that the credit overhang continues to haunt borrowers around the world.
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