Bloomberg
The EGX 30 rose 15 percent last year and 35 percent in 2009 at a time when Egypt's economic growth weathered the global financial crisis better than most countries in the region, according to the International Monetary Fund. The government lowered its ...
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After the fallout, it's boom to bust
New Statesman
A severe Japanese debt crisis would have far-reaching consequences. Although Japan's economy is waning, it is still a leading player in the global financial markets. Much is made of China's holding of US bonds, but Japan isn't far behind. ...
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New Statesman
Spread your investments for a balanced ISA portfolio
Interactive Investor
Corporate bond funds have been very popular with investors over the past two years. Their yields looked particularly attractive at the height of the global financial crisis, as the price of bonds had fallen. Increasing demand for bonds since then ...
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How central banking changed forever
National Post (registration)
That financial meltdown caused a credit crunch that triggered a severe recession and, in countries such as Greece, a sovereign debt crisis. After slashing interest rates practically to zero, central banks desperate to prevent a new global depression ...
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Predicted weakness for our neighbour bad news for Irish exporters
Irish Times
An economy highly dependent on the financial services industry, the costs of bailing out the banks, and the prospect of unsustainably high private-debt levels crushing consumers and businesses all pointed to an even worse recession than has been ...
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Dangers of Diverting Pension Fund Voting Power
Seeking Alpha
They've learned the hard way about leaving their fate in the hands of a few financial quick-turn artists. Similarly, as long as the public remains apathetic about its investment rights, it will be left to the few to assume authority and stir the pot at ...
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NewsDaily: Special report: The revolution in central banking
By Paul Carrel, Mark Felsenthal, Pedro da...
Since the early days of the financial crisis in 2008, the European Central Bank, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England have all been forced to adopt policies that just a few years ago they would have dismissed as preposterous. ..... Niels Thygesen, a member of the committee that prepared the outline of European Economic and Monetary Union in 1988-9, says the euro zone debt crisis forced the ECB to show some flexibility by agreeing to the bond-buying programme . ...
NewsDaily: Top Headlines - http://newsdaily.com/?q=Save+Us+From+Berlusconi
Dollars vs. Gold Investing in 2011 | Gold News
By Doug Casey
He is the author of the economic parable How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes and the recent financial bestseller The Little Book of Bull Moves: Updated and Expanded. He's a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox Business, and is quoted often in print media. .... Frank Trotter: As the economy waffles and the global investing community's attention is drawn from one crisis to the next, I expect the US Dollar to bounce up and down in the current range. ...
Gold News - Gold Market Analysis... - http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/
Surf Warning: Tsunami to Lift Gold | Gold Newswire
By goldguru
The trade was to borrow near 0% Japanese Yen and fund USTBonds and US Stocks for many years. Still amazing that many elite analysts have never heard of it. The Japanese situation hastens the fast retreat. .... The global financial crisis is spreading in a horrible contagion. Big powerful price breakouts are to be expected for Gold & Silver in the coming weeks and months. They notice the grand debasement of money, even if for emergency purposes. ...
Gold Newswire - http://www.goldnewswire.net/
The Future of the Japanese Economy | FiGuide
By Tom Orecchio, CFA, CFP®
The crisis facing Japan will likely create short-term economic disruptions in several areas including manufacturing, supply chain production, infrastructure and multiple utilities and services. It seems that manufacturing ... From what has been reported, the Bank of Japan has significantly increased its money supply to shore up the currency and the financial system. It also appears that the Tokyo stock market is functioning with little to no disruptions. In the long -term, ...
FiGuide - http://www.figuide.com/
3 EURO DEBT CRISIS SCENARIOS | PRAGMATIC CAPITALISM
By Cullen Roche
Alternatively the EFSF could lend money to the countries themselves so that they can buy their own government bonds back at market prices. This manoeuvre has the advantage that it would help to reduce the countries' nominal debt without .... The turmoil and uncertainty could lead to severe losses in the financial sector that would impact the real economy, as we experienced it during the financial crisis. In contrast a scenario with a debt restructuring in Greece and maybe ...
PRAGMATIC CAPITALISM - http://pragcap.com/
Global Money Printing Q.E. Tsunami To Lift Gold :: The Market ...
But the news stories out of Japan focus 98% on their Fukushima nuclear complex, with hardly a peep about the long list of other economic and financial effects. This article will focus on what they leave out, dutifully reporting ..... The global financial crisis is spreading in a horrible contagion. Big powerful price breakouts are to be expected for Gold & Silver in the coming weeks and months. They notice the grand debasement of money, even if for emergency purposes. ...
The Market Oracle - http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/
Surf Warning: Tsunami to Lift Gold - Gold, Precious Metals News ...
Since 1995, news.GoldSeek.com publishes the leading gold news commentaries, gold market updates and reports providing gold investors with the most updated gold and silver prices, news & precious metals information! ... The global financial crisis is spreading in a horrible contagion. Big powerful price breakouts are to be expected for Gold & Silver in the coming weeks and months. They notice the grand debasement of money, even if for emergency purposes. ...
GoldSeek.com - http://www.goldseek.com/
Crony Capitalism Strikes Again by David Stockman
So in the present circumstances, ZIRP and QE2 amount to a monetary Hail Mary. There is no monetary tradition whatsoever that says the way back to U.S. economic health and sustainable growth is through herding grandma into junk bonds and ... In what is no longer secret testimony to the FCIC (Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission), Bernanke claimed that the Wall Street meltdown “was the worst financial crisis in global history” and that “out of maybe 13... of the most ...
LewRockwell.com - http://www.lewrockwell.com/
BETWEEN THE HEDGES: Thursday Watch
By Gary
For months, the Federal Reserve has insisted it has an exit strategy in place and has all the tools necessary for reversing the extraordinary monetary policy put in place during the financial crisis. But now, faced with a formal offer ...
BETWEEN THE HEDGES - http://hedgefundmgr.blogspot.com/
Irish Left Review · What Will Happen When Ireland's Guarantors ...
By Conor McCabe
It does this by selling bonds, and from the money raised it provides funds (with interest) to the financially-distressed states. The ESFS takes bad loans, and by putting them together, turns them into good loans. It uses a financial instrument ... Michael Burke provides an analysis of Karl Whelan's idea of a Debt for Equity Swap with the ECB to resolve our banking crisis. Michael says it won't work. "The sheer size of the bank debts being assumed by the State has led to a ...
Irish Left Review - http://www.irishleftreview.org/
How the VaR Model and Japan's Tragedy Affect Investors
By Frank Holmes
Unfortunately, instead of buying into the opportunity, more than $25 billion was pulled out of domestic and international stock funds while $22 billion flowed into bond funds, such as intermediate-term, short-term and intermediate government ... Frank Holmes is chief executive officer and chief investment officer of U.S. Global Investors Inc. The company is a registered investment adviser that manages approximately $4.8 billion in 13 no-load mutual funds and for other ...
The Daily Reckoning - http://dailyreckoning.com/
The Road of Inflation Will Only End in Tears « Vince's Economic Blog
By vinceseconomicblog
We predicted the demise of the bond market months ago and that process began four-months ago. The 10-year US T-note rose from 2.20% to 3.74%, but with the demise of the stock market there has been what we consider a temporary rally to 3.23%. The downward pressure will continue. .... In particular, the investigation was looking at how Libor was set for US dollars during 2006 to 2008, immediately before and during the financial crisis, people familiar with the probes said. ...
Vince's Economic Blog - http://vinceseconomicblog.wordpress.com/
One Indisputable Fact About The US Deficit
By Joe Weisenthal
In it they warn of a crisis that could "dwarf" the financial crisis of 2008. Whether the argument is logical or not we won't seek to debate here. But here's one indisputable fact. The deficit is purely the domain of yakkers and writers and .... Here's an interesting fact in the United States. According to the Washington post “A typical American family in the United States has about $3800 in the bank. No one has a retirement account. Mutual funds? Stocks? Bonds? Nope! ...
Money Game - http://www.businessinsider.com/moneygame
XE.com - ANALYSIS-New Hungary c.bank board may launch monetary ...
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. ANALYSIS-New Hungary c.bank board may launch monetary stimulus. Top Articles ... That would most likely consist of the bank buying bonds issued by state development bank MFB, which could then lend money on, making loans cheaper for businesses to kickstart lacklustre lending. It may be more of a coincidence that one ...
XE Forex News - http://www.xe.com/news/
US monetary policy and the saving glut
By Guest Author
At the Paris G20 meeting on 18 February 2011 , Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke squarely laid the blame for the financial crisis and ensuing economic crisis on global imbalances, or the so-called global saving glut (for a review of the .... We show that total debt securities outstanding, instead of foreign flows into US Treasury and agency bonds, account for the interest conundrum in the US. The Fed's easy monetary policy did not trigger so much the housing boom, ...
Credit Writedowns - http://www.creditwritedowns.com/
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