Irish Times
The problem is that many suspect the banks are insolvent but the scale of the insolvency hole is simply unknown. Under these conditions, it is hard to expect international stock or bond investors to hand over their money. However, if the €150 billion ...
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Business Highlights
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Escalating concerns about the financial and economic fallout — plus the risk of meltdown at damaged nuclear power reactors — triggered a plunge that hit all sectors of the stock market. The broader Topix index lost 7.5 percent. The Bank of Japan ...
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Germany's new boom: making money by making stuff
The Guardian
The third explanation is that German investors had their fingers burned in the financial crisis and are now keeping their money safely at home. That has provided the capital for an investment boom that will help keep German industry hyper-competitive ...
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The Guardian
Dangers of Capital Flows to South and How to Manage Them
South Centre (press release)
... per cent of actively traded shares in stock markets. All these imply that developing countries' vulnerability to balance-of-payments crisis has declined but their exposure to asset boom-bust cycles and risk of financial instability has increased. ...
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Forget Nuclear Meltdowns —Think Bond Market Meltdowns
The New American
On January 28, 2010, Business Insider predicted Japan's current economic crisis and its impact on the dollar. According to Business Insider, Japan should have exploded into hyper-inflation years ago, but held off this long. ...
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Japan Boosts Economy, Adds $183 Billion and Doubles Asset Buys
Financial Feed
It also stated that since the earthquake, the bank has been trying to gauge its effects on financial markets and institutions' business operations. Benchmark interest rate was kept at 0 to 0.1%. Regular government-bond purchases monthly target were ...
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Financial Feed
Roundup: Malaysia's GDP to grow steadily
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
... region had previously recorded a strong rebounce from the global financial crisis. The expectation is very much in line with Bank Negara Malaysia, the country's central bank's forecast of the Malaysian economy. The bank said recently that economic ...
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Earthquake in Japan to Bring Debt Crisis of Epic Proportions
Minyanville.com
There is a strong risk of a financial meltdown in the world's most indebted nation. After the credit-induced boom in the late 1980s, Japan's high rate of growth stumbled and bank loan defaults skyrocketed. Over the last 20 years, asset prices are down ...
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Disaster in Japan Shakes Global Economy
National Journal
Financial aftershocks from Japan's nuclear crisis hit US stocks on Tuesday morning, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 1.8 percent or about 218 points by mid-morning. Though markets appeared to stabilize, possibly because of hints that ...
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Does your money manager invest in gold?
Mineweb
During the last ten years we have experienced one of the worst recessions on record, a global financial crisis that is unprecedented, currency fluctuations all over the world, bank failures, government bail outs, and an escalation of geopolitical ...
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Pandit Picks Emerging Markets as Citigroup Future in New Risk
BusinessWeek
Both London-based banks rely on Asia for more than half of their income and avoided bailouts during the financial crisis. HSBC posted annual profits throughout the period, while Standard Chartered reported its seventh successive record annual profit ...
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A heap of money that can push gold to new highs!
Equitymaster.com
Imagine what will happen if pension funds view gold as strategically important as other financial assets like real estate and commodities. In such a case, all bets would be off. Thus, have you considered investment in gold yet? ...
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Agric is the way to go
Daily Sun
When you move with the crowd in the capital market you will lose money. As hinted last year, the stock market recorded appreciable improvement last year. The All Share Index (ASI) grew by 18.93 percent last year, indicating returns on investment for a ...
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India Forex Advisors / Market Commentary /15_Mar_2011
IBTimes Hong Kong
Asian stock market opened very weak on accounts of Japan earthquakes disaster effect. EUR/USD: Euro couldn't sustain 1.4000 levels but was still maintaining positive momentum on optimism that the new bailout plan will ease the debt crisis. ...
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Earthquake fallout: US debt crisis gets a downgrade
Salon
That's not to say that the US shouldn't be taking advantage of current financial conditions to reduce unemployment, but just to point out that we're fooling ourselves if we take the flight to Treasuries as some kind of enthusiastic endorsement of the ...
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Salon
BLEEDING HEART COLLECTIVISTS CAUSE CLASS WARFARE
NewsWithViews.com
Way back in 2003 the newspaper ran several articles regarding PERS and reported how Oregon's retirement plan provided the best benefits of any state and how the PERS shortfall emptied the piggy bank for services. Stimulus money has helped fill the gap ...
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Radiation fears spur slide in bond yields
International Business Times
Japanese bonds - June JGB futures surged again to reach 141.17 before closing lower on the session leading the 10-year yield higher by a single basis point to stand at 1.22%. Efforts by the Bank of Japan to deter financial collapse went unnoticed after ...
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RIP Shadow Banking System, Long Live QEx :: The Market Oracle ...
When the US Treasury issues bonds (debt) and it is taken on the Federal Reserve books as an asset, magically money is brought into existence via the issue of currency (or bank deposit) to the US Treasury. ... The Shadow Banking System as the prime pusher of toxic debt instruments collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis and so far it simply has not re-emerged in some sort of hybrid fashion. ...
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[update] Asian markets: the shock spreads | beyondbrics | News and ...
By Stefan Wagstyl
Manmohan Singh, who risked his premiership to secure India's access to atomic reactors and supplies, faces opposition to his $175 billion investment plan after Japan's strongest earthquake triggered the nuclear accident. ... In a remarkably calm note, Standard Chartered Bank said: Economies often have to cope with external shocks. For instance, in the wake of the financial crisis, global trade suffered. The economic and financial impact of this earthquake will largely be ...
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Japan disaster another worry for global economy | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
Japan's earthquake and nuclear crisis have put pressure on the already fragile global economy, squeezed supplies of goods from computer chips to auto parts and raised fears of higher interest rates. The disaster frightened financial ...
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Germany's new boom: making money by making stuff
By Chris Jones
The third explanation is that German investors had their fingers burned in the financial crisis and are now keeping their money safely at home. That has provided the capital for an investment boom that will help keep German industry ... And yes too says Mayer at Deutsche Bank, who spent eight years in London watching the boom-bust come to grief. “You have to realise that Gordon Brown was wrong when he praised economic stability and high growth as the result of his ...
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XE.com - UPDATE 1-S.Africa rand tumbles on Japan selling, stocks hit
Keywords: 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. UPDATE 1-S.Africa rand tumbles on Japan selling, stocks hit. Top Articles ... Johannesburg stocks tumbled more than 2 percent, booking their biggest two-day fall since August, as fears about the crisis in the world's third-largest economy sent investors scrambling for safe-haven U.S. and German bonds. ...
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Great Tohoku earthquake: impact on global markets | www.bullfax.com
By marketmaker
Global bonds rallied immediately after the earthquake, ending the bear market that commenced at the end of 1993. The bull market in global bonds continued into 1996. Source: I-Net Bridge; Plexus Asset Management. .... It's also a major economic disruption that comes amidst instability in the Middle East, spiking oil prices, fears of global inflation, prolonged damage from the 2008 financial crisis, and deepening worries over whether a fledgling global recovery will ...
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Japan's Stock Market Plunges as Export Disruption Threatens Global ...
By Kerri Shannon
The market is pricing in a better understanding of the enormity and complexity of the two natural disasters that struck Japan, Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer at Pacific Investment Management Co., told Bloomberg News. The immediate impact will be felt through lower ... "The short-term market is a starting point of all financial and economic activities, so the bank judged that it's important to relieve any concerns regarding liquidity," said Gov. Shirakawa . ...
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Who Will Buy Bonds Japan Needs to Sell?
By The Daily Reckoning
The central bank pumped 15 trillion yen ($183 billion) into money markets to assure financial stability amid a plunge in stocks and surge in credit risk. Governor Masaaki Shirakawa and his board also increased their facility that ... Who Will Buy Bonds Japan Needs to Sell? originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning now provides over half a million subscribers with literary economic perspective, global market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas. ...
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The Emerging Market You Might Have Overlooked - Wallace Forbes ...
By Wallace Forbes
Well, we're constructive on that market because as we moved into late last year, it became evident that Russia was finally pulling its economy out of the slump that was created by the global financial crisis. .... He also moderates Forbes Investment Roundtable discussions among leading money managers and investment strategists and hosts an interview program with leading money managers that appears on the Intelligent Investing section of the Forbes.com website. ...
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If Market Keeps Falling, Fed Will Keep Printing: 'Dr. Doom'
By Queenbee
BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa's pledge yesterday to secure financial stability and prevent investors from becoming more risk averse was overwhelmed today, with the Topix index of stocks suffering its worst two-day drop since the 1987 crash. ... While the central bank said after its policy meeting yesterday that the economy remained on course to emerge from its fourth-quarter slump, risks to consumer confidence intensified with the government's failure to contain a crisis ...
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Stocks plunge as Japan nuclear crisis worsens | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
Stocks fell sharply Tuesday and bond prices rose as the nuclear crisis in Japan grew following last week's deadly earthquake and tsunami. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 130 points. ... Treasury prices soared during stocks' long drop during the financial crisis. They have fallen as stocks recovered, but events like the Japanese quake and tsunami send investors in search of safer places to put their money. Tuesday's trading showed what happens to stocks ...
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Stocks plunge as Japan nuclear crisis worsens - Markets news
Treasury prices soared during stocks' long drop during the financial crisis. They have fallen as stocks recovered, but events like the Japanese quake and tsunami send investors in search of safer places to put their cash. ...
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More from Bridgewater Associates' Ray Dalio
By Edward Harrison
Right now, Dalio is out of developed economy bonds – and has been for seven months. He is still long gold, commodities, and EM currencies. As for stocks, he says, "Currency devaluations are good for stocks, good for commodities and good for .... The American growth model, on the other hand, is in a deep crisis. The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies . ...
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Japan's Debt Crisis: 5 Things You Must Know (NYSE:EWJ, NYSE:EWV ...
By info@wallstcheatsheet.com (Damien Hoffman)
There is a strong risk of a financial melt-down in the world's most indebted nation. After the credit-induced boom in the late 1980s, Japan's high rate of growth stumbled and bank loan defaults sky-rocketed. ... of a stunningly indebted nation financing the world is explained by a combination of high corporate saving and low levels of residential and non-residential fixed investment due to poor investment opportunities in Japan. That money is gone after this crisis. ...
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A look at economic developments around the globe - Associated Press
TOKYO — Japan's central bank pumped a record $184 billion into money markets ... LONDON — Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami may cost the global ... FRANKFURT, Germany — The European Central Bank held off buying government bonds ... News Topics: Economy, Stock prices, Financial crisis, Natural disasters, ...
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Markets back European debt crisis deal — for now - Yahoo! News
At the close, the ten-year yield on Spanish government bonds was down 0.16 ... Stock markets in the peripheral European countries withstood the selling .... In this crisis Greeks pulled money out of Greek banks at an alarming rate. ... In other countries financial and economic crime is often punished harder than ...
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Euro zone debt crisis intensifies on summit eve | Stock Market News
Investment & Financial Market: Forex, Stock, Business, Finance ... plan to boost economic competitiveness at Friday's Brussels summit but are unlikely ... Bond market pressure on Portugal to become the third euro zone state to seek an ... European Central Bank have started a meeting to discuss the euro zone crisis, ...
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World share markets mixed even as oil price - DailyFinance
LONDON -Japanese stocks led global markets lower on Monday as investors worried ... "A recession and possible fiscal crisis in Japan is another important threat to add to the long list of economic, political and financial uncertainties that .... Business News, What's Hot, Investing and Real Estate, Personal Finance ...
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XE.com - UPDATE 3-BOJ floods money market with cash, may ease policy
The Bank of Japan offered to pump a record $183 billion into the money market ... place last year to buy assets ranging from government bonds to private debt. ... 'The BOJ is likely to take bold steps to stabilise the financial system and ... the economic cost of the worst crisis to hit Japan since World War Two. ...
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UPDATE:Quake, Tsunami No Reason To Quit Japan - Latest News ...
Latest News | Global Finance. UPDATE:Quake, Tsunami No Reason To Quit Japan -US ... In the wake of Friday's magnitude 8.9 earthquake, the Bank of Japan offered ... U.S. stock funds investing in Japan had $1.4 billion in net inflows into ... in the form of bonds from financial institutions and Toyota Motor Corp. ...
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Nuclear fears batter stocks in Japan for 2nd day | Business news ...
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. ... LONDON (AP) — Japanese stocks led global markets lower on Monday as investors ... "A recession and possible fiscal crisis in Japan is another important threat to add to the long list of economic, political and financial uncertainties that ...
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FT.com / Markets / Asia-Pacific - Nikkei crashes as nuclear crisis ...
With the Japanese stock market dropping, the Japanese Government Bond market ... market,” said Maasaki Kanno, head of economic research for JPMorgan in Tokyo. ... Japanese banks were hit hard, in spite of the Bank of Japan's aggressive moves ... Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group tumbled 8.8 per cent, Sumitomo Mitsui ...
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A look at economic developments around the globe - Money & Markets ...
Latest Money Investing, Funds and Stock Market News. AAA Mar. ... Escalating concerns about the financial and economic fallout — plus the ... the debt crisis that has for over a year threatened the existence of the euro currency. ... FRANKFURT, Germany — The European Central Bank held off buying government bonds ...
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