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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Jul 29, 2011

Could a U.S. debt downgrade trigger a financial crisis?
Washington Post
There are no rules to define what is systemic and what isn't — or to accurately predict the consequences of an economic shock. Each crisis is unique. How exactly it will affect financialmarkets, companies and our economy is impossible to know. ...
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Making Sense of the Global Financial Crisis
The FINANCIAL
For many, the global financial crisis and the meltdown in value of money and wealth, the increasing shortage of funds in government treasuries, banks and corporate coffers, the bailouts of Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Greece, with the possibility of ...
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Pivotal moment for financial markets, investors straddle US default line
Economic Times
There are central bank rate decisions and a raft of significant economic reports, for example. The euro zone crisis is also rumbling on. But far and away the most important issue for investors is Tuesday's deadline for Washington to raise its $14.3 ...
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South Korea Economic News
Live Trading News
The 2nd crisis happened amid the Global financial turmoil in late Y 2008 when an exodus of foreign capital drove the Nation's financial system out of control despite solid economic fundamentals. After suffering from the crises, the country realized how...
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Debt-limit brink: Can ordinary investors run for cover? Should they?
MinnPost.com
Amid debate about how safe money-market mutual funds would be in a crisis scenario, somefinancial companies have issued statements designed to reassure investors. "We have stress tested our money market mutual funds, and we believe they can withstand ...
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USA Is "AAA" in Label Only
Business Insider
Sovereigns that bailed out banks are saddled with much greater government debt than before thecrisis. In the spring of 2007, the Fed and the UK's FSA reported that the degree of leverage in the global financial system was less than at the time of Long ...
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What can investors expect from banks' results?
Interactive Investor
This is roughly a third of Lloyds's pay out as RBS's market share is a third of the size of Lloyds's. Barclays's investment banking arm, BarCap, has gone a long way to getting the bank back on a sure footing since the financial crisis. ...
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Questions to Ask on the One Year Anniversary of Dodd/Frank
Seeking Alpha
Last week marked the first anniversary of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, and the news this week is full of perspectives on the debt ceiling "crisis." Common Cents Investing (CCI) tries to avoid political commentary, and this post is ...
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TIM COHEN: Debt crisis
Business Day
Once again, the crisis is emerging in a distant corner of the financial system — the repo market. Thousands of banks, hedge funds and investment companies borrow short-term money on the repo market. The borrower usually provides security in the form ...
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Conscience of a Gold Investor
Gold Seek
The USEconomy cannot be rebuilt or sustained on bond fraud, debt auctions covered by the printing press, endless war, phony accounting, outsourced industry, home equity extractions, riggedfinancial markets, constant deception on economic recovery, ...
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Steve Romick First Pacific Advisors - Q2 Commentary
GuruFocus.com
A country can be viewed as a proxy for the collective economic production of its populace, but if that society finds itself unable to shoulder the debt burden necessary to finance its lifestyle, then simply shifting its financial obligation to the ...
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Would a Credit Downgrade Matter? - Fullermoney
Proactive Investors UK
My view - Following the Asian Financial Crisis, Indonesia went through a painful economic and political restructuring. As a major oil producer in its own right as well as exporting tin, coal and other industrial commodities, Indonesia was well placed ...
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Q&A: How the debt crisis could affect average Americans
The Seattle Times
Looking forward, "it seems highly unlikely that the global financial system will simply settle back to the structure and functions of the pre- 'Great Debt Debate' era," Rochdale Securities analyst Richard Bove told clients Tuesday. ...
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Raise the ceiling or else?
Advisor.ca
The money market system would seize as lending amongst banks would cease very similar to the 2008 crisis. Unlike in 2008, the only entity able to bail us out now would be the Federal Reserve since the US government would be unable to 'spend' our way ...
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