 Bloomberg “Given that high yield is a riskier asset class, the debt crisis and associated economic concerns have a greater impact than on investment-grade bonds,” said Vasant Mehta, a credit strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in London. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| China's Stocks Slump to One-Week Low on Interest-Rate Concerns Bloomberg China's benchmark money-market rate will remain at about a record high this quarter as the centralbank drains cash from the financial system to damp inflation, according to a survey of bondanalysts. The seven-day repurchase rate, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 2 ETFs to Play During the Financials' Fizzle Seeking Alpha The sector's poor performance over recent months has been troubling, to say the least, as many analysts say that a convincing economic and investment recovery cannot be sustained withoutfinancial sector participation. However, this all-important ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Supply, Demand & the USDollar Gold Seek The analysis has become interwoven with crisis events that have turned into the norm. The global money war is also called the competing currency war, but it is much bigger since a revolt is underway to survive the financial crisis. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Gold rush Galway Independent While now may seem like the ideal time to invest in gold, Dr Heaslip says that “there are pitfalls, like any investment” and advises that both financial advisors and the general public fully research theirinvestment before committing. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Newspaper Briefing, including 'Shares rally but questions remain for Murdochs ... Proactive Investors UK BofA and Goldman: When Japans real estate bubble popped in 1990 its banks were left treading water for more than a decade. The US financial crisis also began with plunging property prices. Could US banks be showing signs that a Japanese-style future is ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too. History News Network According to author Kevin Phillips, who popularized this notion, financialization is “a process wherebyfinancial services, broadly construed, take over the dominant economic, cultural and political role in a national economy.”. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| EUROPEAN OPENING NEWS INCLUDING: French president, Sarkozy, and German ... Proactive Investors UK (RTRS) According to US Treasury Secretary, Geithner, the US financial system is in much stronger shape, not just relative to the depth of the crisis but also relative to conditions that prevailed before it hit. (Sources) The most likely scenario, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| WAM Capital expects rates to fall InvestorDaily.com "Consumer sentiment in Australia has recently declined to levels not seen since the global financial crisis on the back of uncertainty resulting from the European and United States debt worries and confusion about the impact of the proposed carbon tax ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Deals, earnings push stocks higher MSN Money Analysts anticipate profits of 58 cents a share and 8 cents a share, respectively. (Microsoft is the publisher of MSN Money.) Global stocks erased earlier losses as details of Europe's plan to halt the debt crisis emerged. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Erdogan Boom Under Threat as Greek Crisis Exposes Turkey's Financing Risk Bloomberg It's mostly financed by short-term inflows to buy stocks and bonds, so-called “hot money,” not longer-term investments. More than half of the $7.8 billion gap in May was financed by inflows that the central bank can't exactly classify and lists only as ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Debt Crisis Implications Council on Foreign Relations Many of the financial officials have been, you know, rather upbeat about the ability of the United States to figure out the problem. Many have commented on the reality that there aren't obvious alternatives to the dollar as an investment vehicle or ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Citadel Pushes E*Trade to Sell Wall Street Journal It managed nearly $20 billion before the 2008-09 financial crisis, but losses from a range of investments helped shrink assets by $8 billion. Citadel lost money as holdings such as high-yield debt and convertible bonds tumbled in value and became hard ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Morgan Stanley's trading revenue up; stock soars San Antonio Express Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group helped rescue Morgan Stanley during the 2008 financial crisis with an investment of $9 billion. The quarterly loss was equivalent to 38 cents per share, much less than the 61-cent loss analysts were expecting. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Investors Flee Safe Havens Wall Street Journal One possible move would be tapping the €440 billion ($624 billion) European Financial Stability Facility, the region's bailout mechanism, to buy Greek government bonds from the secondary market. Another option would be levying taxes on banks as a way ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bold Investors Make Bullish Bets on Euro Wall Street Journal Euro-zone officials are holding an emergency summit Thursday to try tackling Greece's financial crisis and prevent contagion to larger countries. "People are so focused on the details that they miss the elephant charging in the background," said Pierre ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tim Price: The surgery was a success, but the patient died - Fullermoney Proactive Investors UK However the post-financial crisis experience in a number of regions (Japan twenty years ago, and more recently the US and Europe) cautions that book value tends to impart a gravitational pull onstock prices in the aftermath of a bubble. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| America's Permanent Deficit Problems: On the Road to Armageddon Seeking Alpha With Sarbanes-Oxley fully functioning for several years, the 2008 financial crisis happened, and it was premised on the kind of accounting fraud the act was supposed to avert. Banks placed mortgage backed securities in offshore structured investment ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Opinion: Direction for Futures Traders is Coming, One Way or Another Hedgeworld (subscription) In the end, Volcker knew what he was doing because for the next 20 years, bonds and stocksrallied, inflation remained tame and real estate prices skyrocketed. Only one recession—the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s—interrupted the run of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Turkey's Fitch Upgrade Uncertain on Deficit; Stocks Plunge BusinessWeek The deficit is the biggest risk to Turkey's financial stability, according to a central bank report in May. Turks should save their money because “dark clouds are gathering over the global economy,” potentially leading to a global crisis that will hurt ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Morgan Stanley reports pickup in trading revenue Atlanta Journal Constitution The New York investment bank did better than its rivals in the key area of executing trades for its clients in bonds, stocks, commodities and other financial instruments. While most other Wall Street banks reported declines in the second quarter, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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