FINANCIAL news, money, banks, stock, economic and financial crisis, Jan 25, 2011

2011 housing and mortgage market prospects
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Bank valuations stuck at 2009 lows show no crisis recovery
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Financial firms' valuations depend on prices for paper assets such as stocks, bonds, loans and contracts. Starting in 2007, record declines in property ...
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WELSH ASSEMBLY GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO CONSULTATION PAPER - THE PRIVATE RENTED ...
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NewsDaily: Corrected: Goldman profit slides as bond trading wilts
By Jonathan Stempel
NewsDaily: Your best source for breaking news ... Despite the weakness, Goldman shares have held up far better than those of many rivals, and trade around where they were when the financial crisis exploded in September 2008. ... Results so far have spurred questions about how much money banks can make from bond trading in 2011. Fixed income accounted for about half of revenue before the credit crisis, but is expected to account for less in the future. Quarterly investment ...
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Russia Seeks Foreign Investment to Fill Budget Gap « Maksonkert's Blog
By maksonkert
Thus, for the first time since the financial crisis of 1998, Russia will be compelled this year to turn to international banks and pension funds in the United States and Europe to maintain financing for everything from modernizing the military to paying high ... “The main signal that Medvedev will give is that Russia is open for investment,” his chief economic adviser, Arkady V. Dvorkovich , said last Friday at a news conference to preview the Russian goals at Davos. ...
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FCIC to Recommend Prosecuting Wall Street? | The Big Picture
By Barry Ritholtz
Here is a surprise: Shahien Nasiripour reports that the law that created the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission gives the panel an affirmative responsibility. ... Keith Johnson, former president of Clayton Holdings, one of the top mortgage research companies, testified that some 28 percent of the loans given to homeowners with poor credit examined by his firm for Wall Street banks failed to meet basic standards. Yet nearly half appear to have been sold to investors ...
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Weekly market bulletin by John Greengrass
By Enterprise Britain
There was better news from the US where an improvement in the housing market and jobs sector helped sentiment, coupled with better-than-expected earnings from bellwether stock General Electric. ... Hence the reason that global equity markets fell sharply on the better-than-expected economic data, with most major indices ending the week around 2% lower. The Financial Times made the point that with mining and energy companies accounting for around a third of the value of ...
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Bank valuations stuck at 2009 lows for good reasons « ArabianMoney
By Peter Cooper
Then there is the new derivative clearing house that will cost the bank billions made previously from privately negotiated swaps. This kind of uncertainty is the sort of thing that stock markets hate. Besides the whole financial ... Bank CEOs in Davos have to first convince clients that the world economy is really recovering and that a euro zone crisis and Asian inflation is not about to plunge us back into chaos; and then argue that their own business problems will be ...
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Time to close the Fed window a little? | Money-Rates.com Savings ...
By Richard Barrington
In response to the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve flung its lending window to banks open wide by making funds available to them at near-zero interest rates. With improvement in the financial condition of the banking sector, ..... of the financial industry, including having served for over a dozen years as a member of the Executive Committee of Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc. Richard has written extensively on investment topics, including investments , money market ...
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I Know What The Next Bubble Could Look Like And The Tea Party ...
By Gary Anderson
They just buy Fannie and Freddie bonds and make those bonds part of the Tier 2 capital structure. Any destruction of the loan guarantee that underpins that Tier 2 edifice will trigger an instant banking crisis. ... The central banks looked the other way when a homeless guy got four no-money-down mortgages, as this private shadow/investment bank scam took off in mid 2003. Tim Geithner was named president of the Fed in late 2003 and looked the other way as this system, ...
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Guest Post: Another Call For The Fed To Raise Rates, So Big Banks ...
By carlos
businesses, have a longer duration. Since the yield curve almost always slopes upward, they make money off the yield curve spread plus the credit spread. In 2008, I did some modeling for a large financial institution that had ...
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Is Alan Greenspan an anarchist? - MoneyWeek
The man who flooded the world with dollars in the wake of the Asian crisis of 1997-8, the Russian crisis, Y2K, whatever. The man who created the technology bubble and then the housing bubble via his bouts of extraordinarily loose ... the amount of money that is produced - either a gold standard, a currency board or something of that nature - because if you don't do that, history suggests that inflation will take hold with very deleterious effects on economic activity ". ...
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XE.com - GLOBAL MARKETS-Asia stocks rise, earnings, cenbanks in focus
Search for a news provider, date, or keywords. News Providers: Thompson Financial, AP, XFN-Asia, Daily FX, Reuters Date format: yyyy-mm-dd. Refresh Articles. GLOBAL MARKETS-Asia stocks rise, earnings, cenbanks in focus. Top Articles ... two weeks, was supported by hopes for a lasting solution to the. debt crisis in the euro zone, and talk that the ECB may raise. interest rates. Demand from Asian central banks has also spurred wider. buying in the common currency. ...
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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Sarkozy Calls for G-20 to ...
By noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock)
It matters not whether the group is 5, 8, 14, or 20, it is not going to accomplish a damn thing until there is an earth-shaking crisis, and then the most likely result will be to make matters worse. U.S. farmers called to plant more ...
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Is our stock market crisis largely due to that idiotic baby buying ...
By Online Finance
I think him and the rest of the infants getting involved with the stock market are the whole problem. This is what happens when you sit babies down in front of computers. The next thing you know, the economy starts collapsing. ... Easy money and rising home values didn't last. And, people that somehow thought that a 30K salary could pay for a 300K mortgage is not a smart shopper. Why would anyone believe a salesperson to begin with and spend less timy analyzing their ...
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More Good News for the Economy Led to Higher Mortgage Rates Again ...
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Paulson and Co. Clears $1 Billion on Citigroup Shares - DailyFinance
By Danny King
Hedge fund manager John Paulson told Paulson & Co. clients that the company made more than $1 billion during the past 18 months on its investment in Citigroup, Bloomberg News reported, citing Paulson's letter to clients this month. ... Paulson bet big on a bank that received about $45 billion in its taxpayer-funded bailout in 2009. Citigroup converted $25 billion into stock and paid back the other $20 billion in late 2009. The Treasury Department said in December that it ...
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Vintage Figures Dr Who Figures Action Figures » Blog Archive ...
By Jeremy Kay
I saw Margin Call at a packed press and industry screening on Friday but it will be more revealing to see what a "normal" audience makes of it all at Tuesday's world premiere, because financial crisis stories aren't exactly the kind of ... at an investment bank, loosely modelled on Lehman Brothers, in the early stages of the crisis in 2008. Into the pit of the trading floor comes a unit of grim- faced female human resources executives to deliver the bad news of lay-offs. ...
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'Self-Invested Personal Pensions' Uncategorized - Frank O'Donnell
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UK Gilts - UK Shares (including shares listed on the Alternative Investment Market) - US and European Shares (stocks and shares quoted on a Recognised Stock Exchange) - Unquoted shares - Bonds - Permanent Interest Bearing Shares ... I have been in the financial industry for over 20 years, company director of P3 Wealth, a thriving Independant Financial Advisers company. Being able to help people achieve their financial goals and securing them a successful financial future ...
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HERRINGPOST CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL BLOG: Here It Comes America $4 ...
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A LEADER IN CONSERVATIVE NEWS. ... It is clear now that we will instead be witness to the highest prices for commodities ever, fueled by the biggest influx of profit-driven trading and investment ever, unstanched even in the slightest by the hopes of financial regulation ... Republican commission members have agreed with investment bank lawyers and the Futures Industry Association (FIA) that even the proposed 40% ownership limit for any one participant is still too low. ...
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Bank of America posts loss on mortgage problems: Thomson Reuters ...
As the financial crisis was ramping up, then Chief Executive Kenneth ... Nuveen Asset Management owns shares of bank stocks, including Bank of America. ...
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Banks Say Fewer Consumer Loans Are Going Bad | News | Money ...
Fewer customers were late on their monthly mortgage payments. ... millions of credit card accounts in response to regulations passed after the financial crisis. ... In the economic mess that followed, loan defaults increased sharply for all types of ... The investment bank's chief financial officer, David Viniar , ...
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Bank dividend details awaited in earnings reports - CNBC
The recent rise in mortgage rates may have dampened demand from home buyers. ... Citi received $45 billion in rescue funds during the financial crisis, ... to how much the investment bank's employees are likely to make in bonuses. ... Bonds ... Global Business and Financial News, Stock Quotes, and Market Data and ...
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Bank of America posts loss on mortgage problems - Yahoo! News
As the financial crisis was ramping up, then Chief Executive Kenneth ... Nuveen Asset Management owns shares of bank stocks, including Bank of ... Despite the shrinking revenue, the bank posted loan growth of 0.7 ... How many decades ago was this stock this low from a high in 50's before the financial collapse of ...
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Bank earnings to provide dividend timelines and a snapshot of US ...
Analysts will watch how real estate loans are doing to get a sense of ... He says the bank is well positioned for a U.S. economic expansion, ... Citi received $45 billion in rescue funds during the financial crisis, ... Wells has a large mortgage business and is likely to be hurt by any increase in mortgage rates. ...
www.latimes.com/.../sns-ap-us-banks-earnings-preview,0,3716...
Deregulation of financial institutions
Financial Crisis of 2008. The Event: Federal government's removal or ... Commercial banks were barred from engaging in investment banking ... The invention of money market mutual funds in 1971 provided savers with safe, ... Mortgage industry; New Deal programs; Savings and loan associations; Trickle- down theory. ...
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Southern Banks Post Mixed Results; Continuing Financial Woes ...
"The mortgage problems are largely rooted in the South," as were ... "The Midwest emerged earlier" from the crisis. ... The bank put away more money for delinquent loans than several analysts ... But "there was some real buying," particularly in BB&T's stock, Usdin said. ... Email News Alerts · Bookmark and Share ...
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Bank dividend details awaited in earnings reports
The recent rise in mortgage rates may have dampened demand from home buyers. ... Falling bond prices likely hurt fixed income trading results in the fourth ... Citi received $45 billion in rescue funds during the financial crisis, ... to how much the investment bank's employees are likely to make in bonuses. ...
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Analysis: Investment banks face pressure to diversify | Financial ...
Financial News Blog. by Nathan Hamm. Skip to content ... A week of anemic results in bond and stock trading from U.S. investment banks ... a profit center for investment banks in the years before the financial crisis and even in 2009. ... “You want to own the big money-centered banks that have a little bit of ...
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Southern Banks Post Mixed Results; Continuing Financial Woes
NASDAQ News: Southern Banks Post Mixed Results; Continuing Financial Woes. ... longer to leave the mortgage meltdown behind than even the Midwest, ... before the financial crisis because the economy there was less robust. ... The bank put away more money for delinquent loans than several analysts had expected. ...
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Insurers Step Up Europe Real Estate Lending as Banks Scale Back ...
Because covered bonds appear as assets on a bank's balance sheet, the new rules ... mortgages have slowed to a trickle following the credit crisis. ... Financial Corp., provided 36 million pounds of mezzanine loans, ... making commercial mortgage lending attractive, said Kevin Sale, ... More News ». Advertisement ...
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Goldman bankers ascendant again - Financial News
Now, the Wall Street firm's army of investment bankers is making a comeback. ... As part of a broader probe into the financial crisis last year, ... "Goldman is an economic animal," said Keith Horowitz, an analyst at Citigroup. ... In addition, Goldman and other securities firms are selling fewer mortgage bonds, ...
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Swiss Banking Procedures | Fair Loan Rate!
Due to strict laws and regulation there is no chance of money laundering. ... Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) regulates all the banks in ... offered by Swiss banks-Postal, Standard, Investment Fund and Numbered Account. ... and circulating those assets into a stocks, bonds and other securities. ...
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Will bank profits lead to higher money market rates? | Money-Rates ...
Of course, if you own bank stocks, the restored dividends will mean some extra cash in your ... The financial crisis forced banks to slash their dividends. ... as most banks are, for the use of other people's money, it isn't hard to find investments and .... economic growth (2); mutual fund money market fund (2) ...
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Banks Say Fewer Consumer Loans Are Going Bad
In the economic mess that followed, loan defaults increased sharply for all types of ... The investment bank's chief financial officer, David Viniar, ...
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Wall Street firms earn high profits while still owing Uncle Sam
Breaking financial news 24/7 courtesy of TradingCharts.com Inc. / TFC Commodity Charts ... with helping to keep money flowing at the height of the financial crisis, ... of the subprime mortgage meltdown, which crashed the global economy. ... guarantees ensured that bonds that dozens of lenders, investment banks and ...
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JPMorgan Chase Online Bank Review
This chase services include Auto loans or car loan, home equity loan, mortgage loan ... With the latest economic crisis, financial companies have involved in various merger. .... Top 10 Popular Best Vanguard Mutual Funds plus Stock and Bond fund ... Chase Bank News. Foreclosures: Chase event brings mortgage helpThe ...
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Bank dividend details awaited in earnings reports
Banks are still under a lot of pressure from bad home loans. ... Citi received $45 billion in rescue funds during the financial crisis, one of the largest ...
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Corrected: Goldman profit slides as bond - Reuters - Business News ...
Goldman made more money from trading for its own account. ... Viniar said new regulatory rules might limit some of the bank's investing and lending activities . ... An indepth look at how the financial crisis has changed risk taking. ... Economic data provided by Econoday. News provided by Comtex. ...
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NCPR: Goldman profit slides as bond trading wilts (2011-01-19)
Results weighed on other stocks, as the Standard & Poor's financials index closed ... around where they were when the financial crisis exploded in September 2008. ... questions about how much money banks can make from bond trading in 2011. ... rules might limit some of the bank's investing and lending activities. ...
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Banks say fewer consumer loans are going bad - Seeking Alpha
In the economic mess that followed, loan defaults increased sharply for all types of consumer loans _ mortgages, home equity loans, and credit cards. ... While Americans are spending more and the stock market is at its highest point in more than two ... The investment bank's chief financial officer, David Viniar , ...
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NewsDaily: Corrected: Goldman profit slides as bond trading wilts
Goldman made more money from trading for its own account. ... Viniar said new regulatory rules might limit some of the bank's investing and lending activities . ... For all of 2010, Goldman's profit after preferred stock dividends fell to ... are less threatened by tougher regulation following the financial crisis. ...
www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre70n59x-us-goldman/
Goldman Sachs Earnings Slip 53% on Investment Banking Losses ...
Goldman also led fewer debt and stock underwriting deals, ... Bond markets fell broadly in the fourth quarter on concerns about Europe's debt ... For years, investment banks and others have made huge profits from making ... a role in the financial crisis by allowing banks to take on more risk than the system can bear .
www.dailyfinance.com/story/stock-picks/.../19806634/
Banks say fewer consumer loans are going bad | clarionledger.com ...
The bank news comes after a holiday shopping season in which spending was ... card accounts in response to regulations passed after the financial crisis. ... The investment bank's chief financial officer, David Viniar, ... to cover souring loans and the bank's pay back of bailout money to the federal government . ...
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Banks say fewer consumer loans are going bad - Associated Press
In the economic mess that followed, loan defaults increased sharply for all types of consumer loans — mortgages, home equity loans, and credit cards. ... While Americans are spending more and the stock market is at its highest point in more than two ... The investment bank's chief financial officer, David Viniar , ...
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Bank dividend details awaited in earnings reports : Knoxville News ...
The recent rise in mortgage rates may have dampened demand from home buyers. Banks are still under a lot of pressure from bad home loans. ... Falling bond prices likely hurt fixed income trading results in the fourth quarter, ... Citi received $45 billion in rescue funds during the financial crisis, ...
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Housing viability key for financial stability, growth: Study ...
“Housing and the Economy: Policies for Renovation” has verified that reforms to financial regulation, ... Deregulation and innovation in mortgage markets – coupled with inadequate ... lending standards, an increase in non-performing loans and the sub-prime crisis, which triggered the 2008 global financial meltdown. ...
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2010 Q4 Earnings Analysis: Portfolio Managers Weigh Banks ...
“For financial sector bonds, there will be more improvement, ... tied to the overall business environment and the willingness to make loans, Baha predicted. ... under mortgage issues related to its acquisition of Countrywide Financial. ... all returning to their pre-crisis strength in investment banking, Baha said. ...
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