The Economist
But since it is also seen as a financial asset, higher values are a signal to buy. And if housing were simply a financial investment, buyers might be clearer-eyed in their decision-making. People generally do not fall in love with government bonds, ...
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The Economist
How German firms find Ireland's corporation tax regime just fine
Irish Independent
Angela Merkel claims Ireland's corporation tax is a key reason for the country's financial crisis. Ireland is host to over 300 German companies that benefit from the 12.5pc corporate tax rate. Several German banks are based in Dublin's IFSC By Emmet ...
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Irish Independent
China Takes Giant Step Towards Making Yuan the World's Reserve Currency
Center for Research on Globalization
China would first have to ease restrictions on money entering and leaving the country, make its currency fully convertible for such transactions, continue its domestic financial reforms and make its bond markets more liquid. ...
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Center for Research on Globalization
FinSys Update: Eurozone GDP Grows By 0.3% In Q4
Automated Trader
[05:00 ET] * This year will be a critical year in the euro area sovereign debt crisis, which will either mark the beginning of its end or, if policy goals and market expectations are not realised, potentially lead to it further broadening and ...
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Why debt investors are taking leave of their senses
FT Alphaville (blog)
Many small savers place their savings in so-called money-market funds that pay a premium over ordinary federally insured deposits. Shouldn't they expect to face risk? Yet a critical moment in the crisis came when, shortly after the mid-September 2008 ...
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Made in America: Innovations in Job Creation and Economic Growth
American Progress Action Fund
On top of this, they estimate that if nothing had been done to address the financial crisis—no Troubled Asset Relief Program, no bailouts of American International Group Inc., and no investment in the auto industry—our economy would have 5 million ...
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Venezuela : the Embattled Future
Center for Research on Globalization
The incessant convulsions of economic crises that partner concentration in turn engender class polarization and intolerable levels of destitution. Economic growth and sharply rising levels of productivity over the last decade have not been translated ...
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Center for Research on Globalization
The Swiss are stricter on the banks than us
Independent (blog)
UBS and Credit Suisse will have to hold low-risk reserves equal to 10 per cent of their total risky assets, plus 9 per cent of their debt in convertible bonds (debt that converts to equity in crisis). This is considerably tougher than the Basel III ...
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Independent (blog)
Royal Bank, Toronto-Dominion Profits Top Estimates
BusinessWeek
Capital markets helped lift earnings at Royal Bank and others lenders as fees rose from mergers, stock and bond sales. “All economic indicators are starting to improve,” Toronto-Dominion Chief Financial Officer Colleen Johnston said today in a ...
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Mergers are back in a big way
CTV.ca
But if conditions now resemble the golden years like 2005, when mergers were surging and markets were supportive, some worry about a repeat of the excess that followed those years – and which tipped into the financial crisis. Already terms on loans are ...
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer > Setting a new course how innovative financial ...
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
One senior manager from a global investment company puts it to us simply: 'Before the economic crisis, the excess of capital meant that PE was neither needed nor desired by the sector.' now, though, the extra volatility of the market – as well as the ...
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Mexico's Hot Money Challenge - IPS
Although the Bank of Mexico hasn't published the figures for the fourth quarter of 2010, there are reports of more than $45 billion pouring into the stock exchange and to buy government bonds since the beginning of last year's final quarter. ... Given the current global economic situation, nations require more tools, not fewer, to handle financial crises. For countries like Mexico that lack the full set of tools to buttress their economies, it is urgent to overhaul ...
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What We Can Learn From The Financial Crisis
By MD
Put more money into bonds, GICs (Canada), and CDs. If you feel that the stock market is too volatile and you can't handle the market swings, then this might be the a sign that you should rebalance your investment accounts so that you don 't ... Watching the cable news can only add to your stress levels. What good will come out looking at ambiguous charts and listening to so-called “experts” predicting global doom? I have friends that are probably leading experts on “ market ...
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George Soros, Globalist Financial Shark, Is Funding Bretton Woods ...
By DiamondTiger
A sample of the Institute For New Economic Thinking's Advisory Board including central banks, money managers, leftist professors, and social justice proponents : Carmen Reinhart, DENNIS WEATHERSTONE SENIOR FELLOW, PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR ... Reinhart recently co-authored a book with INET advisory board memberKenneth Rogoff, called This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, which analyzed the cyclical nature of financial periods of crisis and growth. ...
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Global Financial System is One Gargantuan Ponzi Scheme... :: The ...
You hock your stocks, bonds, house, business, rich mother-in-law or country and the bank(s) will give you a loan based on the value of the collateral. A world system where all the money is created as debt is a perpetual disaster in the ..... They are now taking advantage of the recent meltdown, and the resulting sovereign debt crisis to line up their heavy artillery including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Federal Reserve System and the Bank for ...
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Monetization and Debt Will Only Bring Inflation « Vince's Economic ...
By vinceseconomicblog
The balance sheet has expanded almost $225 billion over the past 16 weeks, as global central bank assets have catapulted $1.5 trillion yoy, which means the Fed is not the only central bank printing money and credit under the euphemism quantitative easing. ... As public pension funds across the nation suffer from years of underfunding, and from assets that lost value in the financial crisis, experts say that days of reckoning are fast approaching. ...
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John Lothian Newsletter: March 3, 2011: NYSE Euronext Squares Up ...
By Ryan Lothian
This set of exams, announced in November, is Son of Stress Test 2009, a followup to tests the Fed conducted in the wake of the financial crisis. But something seems different this time around. It's almost as if the banks knew their .... Australia clears path for foreign-owned Chi-X to operate: Update The Edge Singapore Chi-X Global Inc. has been given the go-ahead to become the first foreign-owned stock exchange operator in Australia's 150-year trading history with the ...
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BETWEEN THE HEDGES: Thursday Watch
By Gary
"We are obsessed with not doing anything about it," he said, referring to the debt burden and the giant budget deficit left over from the global financial crisis. Looking at the US economy, Mr Robertson said: "We are broke, ... China can no longer sustain high investment, high consumption and low benefit growth, the commentary said. China's central bank will raise the reserve requirement ratio "shortly" to ease liquidity pressure, citing analysts. Financial News: ...
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This Could Be a Good Year for Commercial Real Estate - DailyFinance
By Matthew Scott
"If you recall, 18 to 24 months ago this market was the next shoe to drop [in the financial crisis]," says Michael Torres, CEO of Adelante Capital. "We have averted the crisis, and there is money to be made." ... Matthew Scott is a markets and investing writer for DailyFinance. He spent 13 years covering investment and business news as managing editor and personal finance editor of Black Enterprise magazine. He has written columns for the AOL Black Voices Money Talks blog ...
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Will Dubai weather the storm? | beyondbrics | News and views on ...
By Simeon Kerr
The global financial crisis was bad enough for Dubai, with its real estate exposure and heavy debt burden. The regional political crisis is proving equally troubling. Dubai's stock market fell another 1.6 per cent on Thursday, ending the week at seven-year lows ... International investors are watching the oil- rich kingdom closely for any signs of unrest creeping across the border into the eastern province, home to both large oil reserves and a significant Shia population. ...
beyondbrics - http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/
Will Euro Failure Usher in World Currency?
Irish bank bonds are held by German and French banks, among others, and there has been overwhelming pressure placed on Ireland 's government to borrow money, raise taxes and cut expenses so as to ensure the ailing banks do not founder entirely. .... Sometimes you indicate that the current economic crisis that began in 2008 might have been a bit too much for the intentions of the PE and now they are trying to (hopelessly) put it on track again, while others (like in this ...
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The ECB says “don't tread on me!” | Gavyn Davies | Insight into ...
By Gavyn Davies
Gavyn Davies blogs for the Financial Times on macroeconomics, economic policymaking and the financial markets. Gavyn Davies is a macroeconomist who was the head of the global economics department at Goldman Sachs from 1987-2001 and was ... Or does the ECB announcement definitively mark the low point for global policy rates? If so, it will prove to be the first step of the central banks' “ exit” process, and the start of a lengthy period of monetary policy normalisation. ...
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Drilling for an Oil Crisis-Fullermoney
Subscribers Audio – Daily insights on global stock markets, government bonds, currencies and commodities. Friday's audio focuses on the big picture, long-term outlook. * Subscribers Chart Library – Review any market on an absolute or relative basis, filter thousands of ..... Fullermoney is a division of Stockcube Research Limited ("Stockcube") which is authorized and regulated in the conduct of investment business in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority . ...
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Obama Approves Military Planes In Libya For Evacuation Purposes As ...
By Tyler Durden
President Obama appeared on TV to give his update statement over Libya: there was little new in it - he repeated his calls for Gaddafi to leave or something to that nature (which Gaddafi already responded to preemptively by saying that " he is not ..... “While economic analysts and a final report from the federal government's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission blame the crash on such economic factors as high-risk mortgage lending practices and poor federal regulation and ...
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ECB reviews bank support, holds rates - Financial Post
Trichet, whose ECB presidency expires in October, holds a news conference at 1330 GMT. Thursday's policy meeting was not attended by Bundesbank chief Axel Weber, who shocked markets last month by dropping out of the race to succeed Trichet. ... "Then the ECB has to take the tab basically — continue with the SMP (bond buying programme) and maintain full liquidity." Money market experts are evenly split over whether the ECB will restart the process of withdrawing its crisis ...
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My Investing Notebook: Our National Predicament: Excerpts from ...
By Anonymous
The financial collapse of 2008 highlighted our national predicament. The sudden decline in consumer activity that followed the plunges in the housing and stock markets represented a reasonable – indeed a desirable – response to ... The imagination of our financial leaders remains so shallow that their response to a crisis caused by overleverage and excess has been to recreate, as nearly as possible, the conditions that fomented it, as if the events of 2008 were a rogue ...
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Banking Industry and Companies: Outlook 2011 (NASDAQ:HCBK, NYSE ...
By Chris Whalen
The sweet spot for FHA/FNM/FRE production today is 70% LTV and a FICO north of 700 despite what the news reports and bank press releases suggest. This means well-more than half of all US homeowners (NYSE:IYR) are not bankable and much .... The fact that these large institutions are showing increasing stress at a time when many banks in the industry are recovering and displaying lower BSI scores illustrates an interesting aspect of the financial crisis and its aftermath. ...
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ECB feeds the bank funding addiction – for now | Money Supply ...
By Emma Saunders
The top economics writers at the Financial Times share insights into the global economy, and the central bankers and policymakers who shape it. Economics blog with data and graphics. ... Expectations of decisive eurozone action have fallen sharply amid German resistance to some of the bolder plans to resolve the region's debt crisis. Mr Trichet will lobby hard for action. If he fails, the ECB's patience could run out, with action against “addicted banks” in April. ...
Money Supply - http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/
Links 3/3/11 « naked capitalism
By Yves Smith
Slowly it is dawning on the NY financial press that there will not be another bailout. Can anyone imagine Tim Geithner bamboozling Congress into a 700 billion blank check? No, this is the ballgame. If the TBTS banks and the New York Fed screw it up, its all over for New ... They have been doing it by mark to myth accounting, saying the second loan portfolio is good, etc… this allows the banks to issue new stock at elevated prices and get some real money and re-cap a bit. ...
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IMF Rates Up Dictatorships Just Before Revolutions | The Economic ...
By Michael Collins
The agreement claimed to promote open global trade and economic liberalization through IMF loans to nations to increase the volume of global trade, i.e. globalization. The US has led the organization since its inception. In 1971, President Nixon ... In essence, the loan program moves in to shore up nations devastated in the various shocks to the world economy from oil price increases, financial crises, etc., and, ironically, problems from following IMF recommendations. ...
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Financial Crisis | Economics in Plain English
So what does the story above have to do with the global financial crisis? ... who often times used taxpayers money to buy bonds from big investment banks on Wall ... So what makes this a “market failure” in the economic sense of the term ? .... share and discuss resources such as websites, news articles, blog posts, ...
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XE.com - UPDATE 1-Rating means Zambia 'ready' to issue debut eurobond
Zambia has been contemplating a foreign currency bond issue for several years ... economic liberalisation, rising private investment and production in the mining ... Zambia's resilience in the face of the global economic crisis gave further ... More Forex News. China sacks top Qilu Bank executives after scandal ...
www.xe.com/news/2011-03-03%2003.../1741481.htm?c...
Hedge fund manager Paulson gets HK securities license | Stock ...
Investment & Financial Market: Forex, Stock, Business, Finance ... who made billions of dollars from investments during the global financial crisis, was awarded a ... joining a rush of global money managers to the territory. ... Related Stock Market News. UPDATE 1-Paulson earned more than $5 bln in 2010 – WSJ ...
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Australian & NZ dollars absorb China news, helped by metals ...
Australian finance update: Price of Australian wool at record high, when priced in US dollars. ... Includes coverage of economic and financial market news, .... [Kevin Rudd, Australian Prime Minister]: "This global financial crisis has ... " We expect the Aussie Banks and Mining stocks will perform very strongly ...
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RBS returns to profit in fourth quarter - DailyFinance
Money set aside for bad loans fell 33 percent to 9.3 billion pounds over the year. ... recovery is "ahead of schedule" two years on from the global financial crisis. ... But the proportion of revenue the bank uses to pay its investment banking ... Latest Financial News. Loading... Loading... Loading... Follow Us ...
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Pro-poor budget tries to cheer all
The economy is back to its pre-crisis growth trajectory. ... a high growth rate despite the adverse international economic climate. ... areas by hiking outlays for rural banks and microfinance units, ... investors and hiked the cap on investments in infrastructure bonds and intra-fund trading during lock-in period . ...
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China, India PMIs show inflation pressures: Thomson Reuters ...
That makes them major engines of growth at a time when the developed world is still struggling for traction following the global financial crisis. ...
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WSJ: Why the Dollar's Reign Is Near an End • Todd's Current Top ...
Would Beijing bear the global economic responsibility that comes with having a .... up China's domestic bond market to foreign investors," says Patrick Perret- Green, ... To make serious money, banks have to handle serious volumes—and that means ... When the financial crisis hit, a lot of banks that had avoided the ...
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Thanks God America is declining - Topic Powered by The Guyanese ...
The last year has seen a quadrupling of the share of bank deposits in Hong Kong denominated in yuan. ... and making its financial instruments attractive to international investors. But doing so is central to Beijing's economic strategy. ... But now, mainly as a result of the financial crisis, federal debt is ...
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Bernanke Blames the Global Financial Crisis on China | Finances ...
And the Chinese, along with other central banks in trade surplus countries, ... that the end result is a financial crisis and a bad economic hangover. ... Europe Update. A few notes and stories ... • Portugal bond yields are soaring with .... When the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission interviewed Ben Bernanke on ...
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The Myth of Corporate Cash Hoarding | Alan Reynolds | Cato ...
Larger investments in money-market funds and bank CDs do not mean ... increasing investments in so-called "liquid" assets (which include bonds ... An easily accessible work on the economic crisis, the book guides ... 28th Annual Monetary Conference · The 27th Annual Monetary Conference: Restoring Global Financial ...
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U.S. policy not causing global financial woes, Bernanke says
Watch local news stories in multimedia.,Federal Reserve policy isn't to blame for ... The U.S. financial crisis from 2007 to 2009, Bernanke argued in the speech and ... an update of a concept he first laid out in 2005: the global savings glut. ... Developing Asian nations invested in Treasury bonds and the debt of ...
www.vancouversun.com/news/policy...woes.../story.html
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