Bloomberg
International central bankers and supervisors meeting in Basel, Switzerland, have decided that banksneed to hold more capital to avoid future taxpayer-funded bailouts. Financial stock indexes fell in Europe and the US yesterday as traders interpreted ...
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Natixis sees possible bubbles in commodities
Reuters
... says French investment bank Natixis. The excess liquidity coursing through the financialmarkets that developed economy central banks such as the US Federal Reserve or the European Central Bank pumped out during the global financial crisis has been ...
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Cemex Yields Jump as Slow Growth Saps Demand: Mexico Credit
San Francisco Chronicle
Cemex issued the bonds in April 2010, less than a year after refinancing $15 billion of bank debt to avoid a default following the global financial crisis. The Monterrey, Mexico-based company, the world's fourth- largest cement producer with annual ...
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How to Profit From a Non-US Investing Strategy
Money Morning
If you believe the US faces long-term problems because of its ailing economy and massive post-financial-crisis debt burden, then you probably also believe that the dollar is doomed. To play the decline of the dollar, precious metals are the traditional ...
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Emerging Actors in Development Finance: A Closer Look at Chinese and Brazilian...
World Resources Institute
Between 2009 and 2010, two Chinese state-owned banks lent more money to other developing countries than the World Bank. 1 During the recent financial crisis, Brazil invested $10 billion inInternational Monetary Fund bonds, a striking example of the ...
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One Reason for Poverty: Mental Burnout
The Moderate Voice
The recent economic news is nothing to celebrate when it may indicate a deeper economic and political crisis to come. On an average or median per capita basis, the US might still rank in the top 10 for income and wealth among developed nations. ...
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Newspaper Briefing, including Lloyds slides on Chiefs downbeat forecast ...
Proactive Investors UK
German watchdog raps EU stress tests: Germanys financial regulator has taken a swipe atEuropean Union rule makers over the way they ignored Basel III bank capital definitions when they designed new pan-European bank stress tests. ...
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US Stocks Advance on Valuation as Europe Debt Concern Eases
BusinessWeek
I say 'no.' There are buying opportunities.” Financial stocks rebounded from yesterday's plunge. The group is the worst-performing of the 10 main industries in the index this year, down 6 percent. Bankof America gained 1.6 percent to $11. ...
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US calls for global rules on derivatives
The Australian
Regulators spent more than a decade arguing about new bank-capital requirements before thefinancial crisis and had to essentially rewrite their rules in response to the economic turmoil. In addition, the demands of US officials often are viewed warily ...
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Peru Stocks' Record Plunge on Humala Forces Trading Suspension
BusinessWeek
Today's trading suspensions were the first since the financial crisis of October 2008, the bourse said in an e-mailed statement that urged the President-elect to quickly name a cabinet so that investors can evaluate his economic team. ...
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Gold climbs, hits new Sterling high, as Greece crisis 'stacks odds in favour ...
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
Meantime in Germany "nobody is really enthusiastic about new financial aid for Greece", Reuters quotes an unnamed member of parliament from chancellor Angela Merkel's camp. Over in Athens, Greek prime minister George Papandreou says he would, ...
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Falling Between Scylla and Charybdis
Seeking Alpha
A policy-driven Depression is different than a financial crisis. It is a matter of choice. It means that the objectives of the people who control the system are different than our own. There are those who will benefit from another severe downturn, ...
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