In last summer, Americans' wealth suffered a biggest quarterly loss in shares, pension funds and home lost values more than two years.

According to the Federal Reserve report on Thursday that Household net worth down at 4 percent to $57.4 trillion in the July-September quarter. It was the slipped down since the tumultuous period after the September 2008 bankruptcy of investment bank Lehman Brothers. And it was the second quarterly fall in flat.

Household net wealth is the value of assets such: homes, bank accounts and stocks, minus debts (mortgages and credit cards).

The lower net worth will hurt the stability economy.

Stock market reduces, have avoided Americans' quest to relief losses from the 2008 financial meltdown. The Standard and Poor's 500 stock indexes slumped about 14 percent in the July-September period, ending continuously of four quarterly increases. This reduce was pushed by jittery about Europe's debt crisis and the U.S. economy.

Stocks have rebounded at t 9 percent over last quarter ended. But the S&P index still at 21 percent below of four years ago.

Gregory Daco of IHS Global Insight, said:” in the future, you will see these ups and downs of the volatility era is back. There's greater unconfident among consumers.”

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