Sydney Morning Herald
The financial crisis that first raised its head in mid-2007 was born out of overly loose monetary policy by central banks throughout the developed world and particularly the US. Cash flooding into the system pushed interest rates to artificially low ...
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RBI hikes repo rate, reverse repo rate by 25 bps
India Infoline.com
Although, the recent global financial crisis and the resultant recession had its origin in the developed western world; but its contagion did not spare the emerging economies like India. Once in a life-time crisis warranted a commensurate response in ...
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Derivatives: God's Gift to Investors or Financial Time Bombs?
Investing Answers
Future presidents may be even less inclined to go up against Wall Street. Now all we can do is sit and wait for the next major financial crisis to remind us of the dangerous role that derivatives can play in our economy.
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Investing Answers
What the End of QE2 Means for Mr Market
Minyanville.com
The question, for investors, is what happens when the Fed stops flooding the financial markets with money. Some strategists have warned that, using recent history as a guide, the likelihood of a stock market sell off seems like a good bet. ...
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Why Japan is a "Buy"
Money Morning
That brings us to the stock market itself. Since achieving its post-financial-crisis bear-market lows in March 2009, the US Standard & Poor's 500 Index is up 86%. Japan's Nikkei 225 Index is up only 27% during the same period. ...
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THE ECONOMY
NewsWithViews.com
At the speed of light these MBSs were injected into the international marketplace via the stock and futures markets. Buyers included banks, investment houses, financial firms, and private investors from all over the planet. These securities were sold ...
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Libya: No state guarantees on loans – Fenech
Times of Malta
When Government guarantees deposits, it is guaranteeing legal tender issued by the Government of Malta itself and is therefore getting people to trust the money issued BY GOVERNMENT, without which no financial services industry (on which the viability ...
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Stocks end their three-day skid on hopes Japan crisis is easing
TheDay.com
"The market is oversold," said Mike Ryan, the New York- based head of wealth management research for the Americas at UBS Financial Services. "The major focus is on whether or not Japan will be able to get any kind of containment on the nuclear reactors ...
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The Goldsmiths, Part CLXXXV
Gold Seek
So do you want to attribute this motion to fundamentals or technicals? Or maybe most Americans will gladly follow the Rothschild media pitch and blame nature, natural forces or the proverbial “Act of God” for the crisis. Investment advisor Joel Kruger ...
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Why Japan will avoid fiscal meltdown
Ottawa Citizen
That's when unexpected shocks like the Sendai quake could trigger a financial as well as a humanitarian crisis by undermining the confidence of foreign investors. "Without policy adjustment, the space for household assets to absorb public debt will ...
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G-7 to Discuss Japan's Crisis Tomorrow After Yen Soars
BusinessWeek
“But they have ample cash, deposits and other liquid assets,” he said, adding that the Financial Services Agency and Bank of Japan have confirmed insurers aren't selling their dollar assets. Policy makers have so far focused on offering intraday cash ...
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Securitization rebuilds momentum
The Asset
While several debt products have rallied and strongly rebounded in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, asset-backed securities (ABS) deals have languished due to sluggish appetite from both issuers and investors. Market sentiments appear to ...
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The Asset
G-7 to Discuss Japan Tomorrow After Yen Soars to Post-war High
BusinessWeek
Roach, speaking at the same conference as Jen, said he worries about the strength of the global recovery amid imbalances and shocks from Japan and the Middle East, and said “the financial crisis is far from over.” “Ignorance breeds fear, which breeds ...
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Japan's 9% of Global GDP Means Expansion Won't Get Unhinged
BusinessWeek
Others, including Ian Plenderleith, a former executive director at the Bank of England, are more worried. They fear the accumulating risks will weigh on an expansion that still is coping with the aftereffects of the worst financial crisis since the ...
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Asia Expert: Despite the G-7 Intervention, Japanese Banking Crisis ...
By Keith Fitz-Gerald
In this Japan update, Fitz-Gerald explains that the G-7 intervention move won't be enough to avoid a Japanese banking crisis.] By Keith Fitz-Gerald, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning. The United States and Canada today (Friday ) joined ... By intervening repeatedly - as they have throughout our own financial crisis, throughout the European Union's banking disaster, and now in post-quake Japan - those central bankers are solving short-term problems, to be sure. ...
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Bill Mitchell is nailing It. (must read ...
By Kristjan
The global economic crisis might suggest that the neoliberal promise—that markets can self-regulate and deliver sustained prosperity for all—was a lie. But that doesn't seem to have registered with governments, which have, .... provides corporate welfare in the form of risk-free income flows to the rich because it allows them to safely park funds in bonds during uncertain times and provides a risk-free benchmark on which to price other, riskier financial products. ...
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The Canada Bubble?
By Leo Kolivakis
Haber, an American, was chief investment officer at fund giant Fidelity Canada for 12 years and tracked Canadian stocks from his base in Boston. Meanwhile, Madani, a New Zealander, spent a decade with the Bank of Canada as a forecaster ..... Australia and Britain had a great run over the first 7 years of the new millennium, but were stopped in their tracks as the global financial crisis unfolded. Things started to unravel a little quicker for the United States where the ...
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global glass onion: week ending Mar 19
By rjs
Fed balance sheet hits record size again - - The size of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet reached another record in the latest week, spurred by its $600 billion bond program aimed to support economic growth, Fed data released on Thursday .... Shelby argues that Diamond is unqualified because he has little experience “conducting monetary policy, supervising our financial system, and responding to financial crises.” Thus, Shelby says, “Mr. Diamond's background clearly ...
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Currency Intervention - Central Banks Move To Weaken Yen, Calm ...
Central banks will often issue bonds to soak up any extra cash in the economy that results from currency intervention for fear that the additional liquidity could fuel inflation. Wider Concern. G7 financial leaders ... "The country has suffered enough catastrophe and calamity to try to avoid, in addition, a deep economic and then financial crisis resulting from a rising currency and preventing the Japanese from exporting as they usually do." Investors were also keeping a ...
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The World's Best Gold Experts: “Buy and Hold!” :: The Market ...
He and his staff have an extraordinary record of success in resource stock investing. James Turkis the founder and chairman of GoldMoney.com. He's authored two books on economic topics, published numerous articles on money and banking, .... Charles Oliver: Global currency debasement will continue in 2011. The European sovereign debt crisis continues to unravel in slow motion, and it looks highly likely that the Europeans will magically create lots of money to backstop the ...
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Japan live blog – day eight | Gideon Rachman's blog ...
By FT
We are borrowing Gideon's blog to cover the aftermath of Japan's earthquake and the country's nuclear crisis. Please keep your comments coming and please send us any images you have to japan.quake.ft@gmail.com if you are in Japan. .... We, the G-7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, discussed the recent dramatic events in Japan and were briefed by our Japanese colleagues on the current situation and the economic and financial response put in place by the ...
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U.S. Dollar Crisis: Only Way to Protect Yourself
By Michael Lombardi, MBA
Lombardi: Expert Stock Market Commentary & Forecasts, Financial & Economic Analysis Since 1986 ... And what did Americans do with their access to easy money? They borrowed and borrowed some more, investing the borrowed money into real estate. Looking ahead, perhaps the Fed's actions (of reducing interest rates so low as to entice consumers to borrow more than they can afford) will one day be ...
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Alert: Nuclear (and Economic) Meltdown In Progress by Chris Martenson
Further, insurance companies, huge holders of US bonds, face stiff liability claims in the wake of the worst natural disaster to hit a heavily industrialized center and are forced to redeem enormous amounts of Treasury paper. ... Banks begin to fail again, global trade falls off, unrest continues to build, and then it happens – a currency crisis. Stage 6: Everything changes. Faster than you think. I wish I could completely quantify and justify the reason for this ...
LewRockwell.com - http://www.lewrockwell.com/
How exactly did the US Treasurer, Tim Geithner, recapitalise US ...
By yanisv
The SPV, later named EFSF (the European Financial Stability Facility), was meant as a temporary fund. As the euro crisis deepened, it was decided that it would evolve, by 2013, into a permanent institution called EFSM (the European Financial Stability ... Similarly with the EFSF bonds issued, for example, for lending to the Irish state which, in December 2010, came to verge of bankruptcy, having failed to find the money to repay, as promised, its private banks' debts. ...
Yanis Varoufakis - http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/
What will the effect of the Earthquake and Tsunami be on the ...
By Shaun Richards
We of course do not yet know how badly this particular facet of the crisis will play out but in culture where the word for yes hei (hai) can mean both yes and yes maybe and the underlying importance of loss of face means that the Japanese authorities are .... He has worked in the City of London for several investment banks, in Japan on derivatives, and for Philips & Drew in the government bond department. Shaun is an LSE graduate. Shaun Richards - RSS Feed (Subscribe) ...
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$200 Billion Hit to World's 3rd Largest Economy! What to Do …
By Mike Larson
So what about the impact on financial markets? The global economy? Those are the parts of this crisis I'm more qualified to discuss, so I'm going to jump right in now … Japan's Economy Facing $200 Billion Hit! ... I would also stick with shorter-term U.S. Treasuries instead of longer-term bonds. And I prefer higher- quality corporate debt over junk. One fixed-income ETF we have in the Safe Money Report portfolio focuses on that part of the bond market, for instance. ...
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Why inflation hurts more than it did 30 years ago - Business wire ...
And for a good reason: Their income has been even flatter than inflation. Back in the '80's, the money people made typically more than made up for high inflation. In 1981, banks would pay nearly 16 percent on a six-month CD. And workers typically got pay raises to .... Thanks, in part, to the Fed's efforts to push down loan rates starting with the financial crisis, the average rate on a 30 year fixed mortgage is below 5 percent. The comparable rate in 1981? 18 percent. ...
bellinghamherald.com: News Update - http://www.bellinghamherald.com/590/story/902664.html
Newspaper Briefing, Including Ofcom to investigate U.K.'s £3.5 ...
Firstly, Greggs is investing through the challenging market. Capital expenditure was £30.3 million in 2009, £45.6 million last year and should be £60 million in 2010. Secondly, Greggs' reputation for “value” is vital amid economic uncertainty. ... *FSA warns banks over vulnerable mortgage customers:* Homeowners are taking on as much debt as they did before the financial crisis, leaving them and the financial system vulnerable to any rise in interest rates, the Financial ...
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Monty Pelerin's World » Doomsday Scenario Directly Ahead?
By Monty Pelerin
With no viable or politically-practical way of balancing U.S. fiscal conditions and avoiding this financial economic Armageddon, the best that individuals can do at this point is to protect themselves, both as to meeting short-range survival ... Banks begin to fail again, global trade falls off, unrest continues to build, and then it happens – a currency crisis. Stage 6: Everything changes. Faster than you think. Mr. Martenson has done a commendable job of predicting and ...
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Impact Of The Earthquake On Japanese And Global Economies ...
By IDSA
The Bank of Japan intervened and flooded money markets with emergency funding to the tune of nearly $700 billion in a bid to keep the financial wheels turning. After two days of steady fall by 20 per cent, the lowest in almost two years ... Therefore, without sound management of the crisis situation, the economic situation will only worsen. Japan is attempting to avoid this possibility. Yonekura has urged the government to establish a strong command centre to ensure swift ...
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UPDATE: Japan Crisis Drives Investors Out of Equity Funds
NASDAQ News: UPDATE: Japan Crisis Drives Investors Out of Equity Funds. ... - Japan crisis adds to risk-off sentiment, steering money toward bond funds ... week as the crisis in Japan added to fears of a global economic slowdown, ... by the European Central Bank in expected to put a check on the region's growth. ...
www.nasdaq.com/.../stock-market-news-story.aspx?...
Stocks Fall as Traders Focus on Japan Crisis - NYTimes.com
The anxiety was heightened by increasing volatility as stocks, bonds and currencies ... The Bank of Japan continued to pump liquidity into the financial system on ... the economic impact of the crisis in Japan and a possible response . ... Still, global central bankers have plenty of options to choose from if the ...
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/business/17markets.html
Economic hit from Japan quake seen up to $200 billion - News
"Knee-jerk economic and financial reactions to shocks and disasters often fall ... high degree of uncertainty about the global economic impact of the disaster, ... meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bankers to respond to the crisis , ... FBS makes available a full range of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds to ...
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Markets back European debt crisis deal -- for now - Yahoo! Finance
At the close, the ten-year yield on Spanish government bonds was down 0.16 ... The results of special stress test on Ireland's banks due at the end of the month ... For instance, there is no agreement yet on how the European Financial .... tax those who profit from wars, disasters, revolution, and economic crisis ! ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../Markets-back-European-debt-apf-4052...
Japan kicks off yen intervention as G7 agrees joint action ...
Central banks will often issue bonds to mop up any extra cash in the economy that results ... G7 financial leaders may be worried that a surge in yen repatriation could unsettle global markets, creating a crisis of confidence that ... implications for economic and financial stability," the G7 said in a statement. ...
townhall.com/.../japan_kicks_off_yen_intervention_as_g7_ag...
credit weekly - Mon, 14 Mar - BUSINESS NEW EUROPE
Third, political unrest/crisis in the Middle East has proven to be something of ... A rating upgrade to investment grade is long overdue, but the feeling is that this ... this strategy since the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis. .... region are bad news for risk trades across global financial markets . ...
www.bne.eu/dispatch14448/credit_weekly_Mon_14_Mar
Yen surges and global stocks fall as Japan crisis deepens - Japan ...
TOKYO – Japan's Central Bank sprayed more cash over jittery money markets ... Courtesy of Michael Snyder of Economic Collapse Global Financial Markets are in ... over the world as investors flock to investments that are considered to be safer. ... the rug from under stock and bond markets thousands of miles away. ...
politifi.com/.../Yen-surges-and-global-stocks-fall-as-Japan-cris...
DJ 3rd UPDATE: G-7 Pledges Rare Joint FX Intervention As Crisis ...
--Other G-7 central banks will intervene during their trading days ... after a 90-minute teleconference of G-7 finance ministers and central bankers. ... Economy Minister Kaoru Yosano said the G-7 decision to conduct joint interventions ... Mar 18, 2011, US stocks surge despite ongoing Japanese nuclear crisis, ...
www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId...c65a-4fe1...
XE.com - UPDATE 2-Norway SWF confident on Japan, rides 2010 stocks ...
UPDATE 4-Five banks probed over benchmark rate-source ... nervous about Japan's nuclear crisis and its economic prospects following a huge earthquake and tsunami. ... the fund lost some $520 million on its investment in Tokyo Electric , where it ... Asked if the fund would buy more bonds from the European Financial ...
www.xe.com/news/2011/03/18/1779053.htm?c=1&t=
ADB Review: News from the Asian Development Bank (March 2011)
sector, he has advised Shinhan Bank and Woori Investment ... director of the financial market think tank, the Korea Fixed ... NEWS ADB Prices $2.75B 5-Year Global Bonds Issue 2 Higher Migration Seen Due to ..... aims to develop equity, bond, and money markets ... from the global financial crisis but still needs ...
www.adb.org/documents/.../3/adb-review-march-2011.pdf
Economic Hit From Japan Quake Could Add Up - Hedge Funds ...
"Knee-jerk economic and financial reactions to shocks and disasters ... However, reflecting the high degree of uncertainty about the global economic impact of the disaster, ... of G7 finance ministers and central bankers to respond to the crisis, ... Japan has capped new bond sales at ¥44 trillion in recent years, ...
www.hedgeworld.com/news/premium/read_rss.cgi?...html
FxMemo - Forex News - UPDATE 1-SPECIAL REPORT-How lobbyists ...
Financial services make up about 6 percent of the EU economy but account for a ... It was introduced by MEP Arlene McCarthy, and survived intense fire from investment banks. ... all of which bar one turned to the state for help in the financial crisis. ... UPDATE 1-Brazil's Hypermarcas plans first global bond sale ...
www.fxmemo.com/forum/thread/3317152/
Japan Nuclear Crisis: New Power Plant Construction Renaissance in ...
The Rule of Gold After the Financial Collapse - 14th Mar 11. Stock ... Libya Food Aid and the Global Food Crisis - 11th Mar 11 .... Disclaimer: Nothing published by Money Morning should be considered personalized investment advice. ... either stock, option, futures contract, bonds, commodity or any other financial ...
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The Philippine Stock Exchange and The Philippine Peso/Foreign ...
The Bank of Japan pledged to ensure financial stability by providing liquidity. ..... the (global financial) crisis in a strong position, even as the economic ... The money managers who picked the global stock market bottom say now is no ... Investment Management Co., which oversees the world's largest bond fund in ...
www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=74471117
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