Reuters
Companies in the developed world are sitting on record levels of cash after combating the economicdownturn by firing staff, stopping M&A deals and reducing capital expenditure after the financial crisis. Banks in particular have deleveraged to repair ...
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The Flight of the Doves Money, Spending, Employment, Inflation, Disinflation ...
Business Insider
As with TARP investments in the nation's banks, the extraordinary array of monetary policy initiativesbrought to bear on the financial crisis have been far less productive than conventional economicanalysis postulated when they were implemented. ...
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The perils of pursuing the easy-money way out
Sydney Morning Herald
Evidence from the recent crisis suggests that ultra-low rates prompted a wide range of portfolio adjustments, whereby Asian and Middle East central banks and funds ended up holding the safest low-interest securities, while the US and European financial ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Invest for income: How to do it now
CNN
The financial sector, which once accounted for nearly a third of all S&P 500 dividends, contributes less than 12% today. That's because back in the darkest days of the economic crisis, government regulators forced banks to cut or suspend their ...
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New UNCTAD study charts impact of financial investors on commodity prices
CPI Financial
But while index investors were significant price drivers prior to the financial crisis, the importance of money managers (such as hedge funds) has increased since then.Money managers follow an active trading strategy that may build and unwind ...
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CPI Financial
It's bubble time for Asia
TODAYonline
Asia has done an impressive job of weathering the global financial crisis. Yet its performance of the past two-and-a-half years is no guarantee it can continue to do so. BLOOMBERG William Pesek is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are ...
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Newspaper Briefing, including BP's Bob Dudley pours cold water on Russian deal ...
Proactive Investors UK
In its keynote annual statistical review of world energy, BP said that global demand had grown by 5.6% in 2010, the fastest rate since 1973, largely because of the post-crisis industrialisation of coal-dependent developing nations. ...
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Burbank Contrarian Saudi Bets Shows Why Oil Helps Return 23.6%
Bloomberg
“Had we been even more imaginative about the economic crisis that the financial crisis would beget, we would have sold more broadly,” Burbank wrote to his clients in February 2009. “We were too eager to buy companies at levels we thought were ...
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The File on Citadel's Ken Griffin
Chicagomag.com
In the second half of 2008, as the economic crisis that took down the investment banks Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers deepened, the market for convertible bondsfroze up when major financial institutions ran low on cash. Citadel's assets plunged in...
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Chicagomag.com
Investing Strategies as Economic Momentum Wanes: LNKD, JPG, WFC, BAC, BTO
GuruFocus.com
HP's global reach helps insulate it from weakness in the domestic economy. Divining the future is always difficult, particularly our economic future. Few saw the lastfinancial crisis; few will be right going forward. Friday's jobs report was a shocker ...
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GuruFocus.com
Newspaper Briefing, including US warns against light touch bank rules that ...
Proactive Investors UK
Iceland's former premier denies criminal negligence over banking crisis: Iceland's Geir Haardebecomes first world leader to face charges in relation to the global financial crisis. The former Prime Minister of Iceland has been formally charged over ...
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An Indonesian woman walks past an art installation at a shopping mall in...
Financial Times
In the late-1980s and 1990s, the country was also an investors' darling, but those dreams were shattered with the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Some economists fear that, this time too, it may fail to take growth to the next level. ...
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Financial Times
Debit-Card Fees, Privacy Breaches, Insider Trading, Fraud Plea: Compliance
Bloomberg
The amount Barclays must return will be offset by $1.1 billion in assets that the two parties previously agreed should go to the UK bank, which bought Lehman's businesses in the 2008 creditcrisis. That cuts its cost to about $1.2 billion, ...
Debit-Card Fees, Privacy Breaches, Insider Trading, Fraud Plea: Compliance
Bloomberg
The amount Barclays must return will be offset by $1.1 billion in assets that the two parties previously agreed should go to the UK bank, which bought Lehman's businesses in the 2008 creditcrisis. That cuts its cost to about $1.2 billion, ...
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National Post (registration)
Bond investors say even a temporary default could erode confidence in Treasuries and the dollar, wreak havoc in mutual funds and possibly provoke another global crisis. “It's a very dangerous tactic,” said Mirko Mikelic, who helps manage $17 billion at ...
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