Huffington Post
All of this lucre, of course, came courtesy of a massive federal bailout of Wall Street that helped keep Goldman and the nation's other commercial and investment banks afloat in 2008 and 2009, when the worst financial cataclysm since the Great ...
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Global Rout Resembling 1994 Seen as Inflation Exceeds Rates
BusinessWeek
The last time the world experienced such pressures was in 2008, when they were thwarted only by the credit crisis and recession, he said. This time, central banks will allow inflation to run, Mayer said. They will nevertheless try to cap long-term bond ...
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A question of growth for industry leaders
Financial News
2 In the eurozone, the financial crisis is still challenging and the pressure on the sovereign debt of the peripheries is mounting, putting downward pressure on equity markets. In the US, some inflationary pressure from emerging economies would ...
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Daily Sun
Before the birth of AMCON, available information shows that Intercontinental Bank's shareholders' funds as at December 2008 was N191.08 billion. The capital went into negative to the tune of N369billion in the heat of the crisis that hit the financial ...
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Speculators double down on oil
Fortune (blog)
Are they going to invest in government bonds when you have news about Greece possibly defaulting and the US debt ceiling continuing to rise? Are they going to put in stocks after the collapse that resulted from the financial crises( that was caused by ...
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Independent Investment Advisor Optimism Sharply on the Rise According to ...
Business Wire (press release)
Through its operating subsidiaries, the company provides a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its broker-dealer subsidiary, ...
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JPMorgan Tops Investment Bank Fees Spurred by Deals from Beijing to Brazil
Bloomberg
In 2010, the market for mergers, stock and bond issues in the US and Europe was dampened by a series of crises that began on April 22, when the European Union estimated that Greece's budget deficit for 2009 had been 13.6 percent of gross domestic ...
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Traders turn to currencies for hedging defences against Black Swan risks
The Australian
Picture: AFP Source: The Australian MORE than two years after the financial crisis shattered investors' faith in markets, some high-profile investors are using low-cost currency trades rather than traditional hedging tools to protect their portfolios ...
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A return to Stupidland
Independent Online
Basically, easy money met smart ideas and made whoopee. Interest rates were low as central banks had eased monetary policy after the Asian financial crisis of 1998-9. New technology was creating new ideas and new internet-based companies. ...
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Smart Money Analysis: Citigroup in, Goldman out at top funds
International Business Times
The bank took $45 billion in US bailout funds during the financial crisis and counted the government as a shareholder as recently as December. Its share price rose almost 43 percent in 2010, closing the year at $4.73. Contrast that with Goldman, ...
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Global financial turmoil, China shipbuilding industry – the ...
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2008 difficult to predict the risk of incoming, in September, the U.S. financial crisis has rapidly spread to the world as a scourge, full outbreak of the global financial crisis, the stock market crash! ... The diminished demand in the global economy context, the current situation is worrying China's shipbuilding industry, banking and other financial institutions have tightened to reduce the risk of a mortgage bond, “precedent” not only for shipbuilding or ship East ...
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Egypt Paper Plunges On Latest Stock Market Reopening Delay, 266 ...
By Tyler Durden
Global depositary receipts of Commercial International Bank Egypt SAE sank 15 percent in London last week to the lowest level since July. Orascom Telecom Holding SAE traded 5.2 percent below its Jan. 27 close, when the Egyptian Exchange ... 28 after investors facing losses criticized exchange chairman Khaled Seyam at a news conference, calling for an extension of the closure. The Egyptian Financial Regulatory Authority, the bourse's regulator and the main clearing house, ...
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The Automatic Earth: March 7 2011: Financial Threats to Power
By Ilargi
Any wealth that manages to survive the worst phases of the global financial crisis will only be as valuable as the Earth's environmental and energy systems allow it to be. It will certainly be difficult to continue concentrating wealth ... Remember Taibbi's earlier indictment of Goldman Sachs: the "world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. ...
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BETWEEN THE HEDGES: Monday Watch
By Gary
With real-estate values climbing in the aftermath of the record credit boom unleashed during the global financial crisis, slums have emerged in cities including Beijing and Shanghai as migrant workers and cash-strapped urban youth seek an .... more hedge funds are speculating stocks will advance than at any time since 2007, according to data compiled by TrimTabs Investment Research and BarclayHedge Ltd. While money managers playing catch-up with the market's gains have ...
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Are GICs a Good Substitute for Bonds? | Balance Junkie
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But five fatal flaws in the financial sector's current structure have created a monster that drains the real economy, promotes fraud and corruption, threatens democracy, and causes recurrent, intensifying crises. ... Bonds Stocks, bonds and cash are the three asset classes that most people consider to be the foundation of an investment portfolio, with stocks representing the most risky choice and cash, the least. Where do GICs fit into the mix? .... Free BJ Updates ...
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Greece Slams Credit Rating Agencies After Downgrade
By The Huffington Post News Editors
... up for failing to predict the financial crisis. "Having completely missed the build-up of risk that led to the global financial crisis in 2008, the rating agencies are now competing with each other to be the first to identify risks that will lead to the next crisis," the ministry said. ... Whether Greece ends up restructuring its debts – effectively reducing the amount it pays to creditors – could hinge on whether it can get the support of investors in bond markets. ...
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A return to Stupidland| Legal Technology Asia
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Basically, easy money met smart ideas and made whoopee. Interest rates were low as central banks had eased monetary policy after the Asian financial crisis of 1998-9. New technology was creating new ideas and new internet-based companies. ... Many came to the stock market at massive valuations and that in turn inspired a new round of companies with odd names and faith-based business plans. Anything and everything was going to be done on the web, it seemed clear, ...
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Greece slams rating agencies after Moody's cut (AP) | Forexfloor.org
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... the financial and debt crises. “Having completely missed the build-up of risk that led to the global financial crisis in 2008, the rating agencies are now competing with each other to be the first to identify risks that will lead to the next crisis,” the ministry said. ... Whether Greece ends up restructuring its debts — effectively reducing the amount it pays to creditors — could well hinge on whether the country can get the support of investors in the bond markets. ...
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The Monster: the fraud and depraved indifference that caused the ...
By Cory Doctorow
It's a book that should be required reading for anyone who says that the economic crisis was caused by greedy mortgage-takers who spent too loosely with their credit cards. The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street ..... It was the Wall Street investment firms that built up the subprime market in the first place in order to profit in the lucrative trade of mortgage bonds ( MBS- Mortgage Backed Securities and CDO- Collateralized Debt Obligations) - which ...
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Canada PE could see strong 2011; LVMH bags Bulgari | FP Posted ...
The recovery came as confidence returned to the market after the global economic crisis, when dried-up credit markets made it almost impossible to raise new private equity funds. “With a firming economy, people can be much more ...
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Did Hedge Fund Inflows Really Rise 14% in 2010? (NYSE:AXP, NYSE ...
By info@wallstcheatsheet.com (Damien Hoffman)
David Tepper, head of Appaloosa Management LP, may back other hedge fund managers in coming years as he reinvests big profits generated in the wake of the financial crisis. Appaloosa generated returns of more than 100% in 2009 by betting on Bank of America ... Tepper said in a recent interview with MarketWatch that Appaloosa is planning to return money to investors so the firm's hedge funds don't get too big to run profitably. 10 Magic Formula Canadian Stocks (Forbes) ...
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Germany Bank Economists See 2011 German GDP +3.0%, 2011 +2.3 ...
contributing significantly to economic growth, the chief economists observed. Exports are forecast to grow 8.1% this year and 6.4% next year. Equipment investment is projected to pick up by 9.2% in 2011 and by 5.2% in 2012. Construction investment is seen at ... that the sovereign debt crisis can only be defused gradually over a long period.” The bank economists advocated allowing the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to buy bonds of highly indebted Eurozone ...
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Don't Miss the Good Economic News in a Wave of Bad News - CBS ...
By Larry Swedroe
And junk bond spreads, which had peaked at over 20 percent at the height of the crisis in 2008, are now at the lowest levels since the crisis began, around 4.5 percent - about where they were in 2004. .... practical personal finance advice about your retirement, investing, savings, career and real estate. A joint effort between the news powerhouse CBS and the business experts at BNET, MoneyWatch.com is the place to go for personal financial insight you can trust. ...
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Last year and 2009 was the largest two year sale of corporate bonds ever--$3.1T .... FBR reiterates Outperform ratings on Bank of America, PNC Financial (PNC), ... and form a partnership with the bank in 2008 during the financial crisis, ... Stock futures remain lower after the release of several economic reports. ...
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XE.com - UPDATE 1-Rating means Zambia 'ready' to issue debut eurobond
News Providers: Thompson Financial, AP, XFN-Asia, Daily FX, Reuters ... 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 ...
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Update on European Financial Crisis and Bond Yields | IPhone ...
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Dollar's Reign is Near an End - Dinar Vets Message Board
The last year has seen a quadrupling of the share of bank deposits in Hong ... making its financial instruments attractive to international investors. ... But now, mainly as a result of the financial crisis, federal debt is ... While this is not an economic disaster, Americans will definitely feel it in the wallet. ...
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