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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Aug 04, 2011


FTSE plunges to lowest point this year as US double-dip recession fears spook ...
Daily Mail
Meanwhile, Spanish and Italian bond yields surged again, reflecting a lack of confidence in those countries' financial stability. It is feared that the two countries could be the next dominoes to fall in the crisis that has already engulfed Greece, ...
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Daily Mail
New all-time high for gold as global stock markets slump, where next?
Gold Seek
So is gold the going to be the ultimate hedge against economic armaggedon, or at least round two of the global financial crisis? Let us step back and take the view from Mount Olympus. Since the global financial crisis of 2008 the global central banks ...
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License to Debase USDollar Further
Gold Seek
It was coerced to reduce interest rates as the subprime mortgage crisis morphed into an absolutebond crisis, as the Jackass loudly stated during that fateful summer. The US bank leaders claimed it was contained. It was not. The USFed was backed into ...
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Emerging-market booms in doubt as China tackles internal challenges
Chicago Tribune
China initiated stimulus programs after the US 2008 financial crisis and fueled a boom that helped insulate emerging markets from the US recession. Still, Fong is avoiding investments in Chinese banks and property and has less invested in ...
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Chicago Tribune
SEC Restructure, Germany Antitrust, Greek Banks, Macquarie: Compliance
Bloomberg
Swaziland, a landlocked country of 1.2 million people bordering South Africa and Mozambique, raised taxes and cut state spending after losing a third of its revenue when the global economic crisisreduced trade and slashed income from a regional ...
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THE DISTILLERY: Rates relief
Business Spectator
If this continues into the rest of the year, the next rate movement in Australia could be down as theglobal economy and world markets tank. And the Australian Financial Review reported on its website this morning: "The eurozone debt crisis threatened ...
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SEC moves to restore confidence with investor education
Nigeria Daily Independent
Collective Investment Schemes or mutual funds, he told the gathering, are financial instruments that allow a group of investors to pool their monies with a predetermined investment objective. Such pool of funds can then be invested in specific ...
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Debt Bill Becomes Law, Averting Default - Fullermoney
Proactive Investors UK
Transfers of savings from the core to the periphery occurred voluntarily prior to the financial crisis as yields converged and spreads and shrank to historically low levels. The risk premium on peripheral assets appeared negligible but this assumption ...
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TSX suffers steep drop on renewed economic worries
CTV.ca
"The talk around the world has been centred around debt crisis. And what it's done is led to some paralysis as far as people who are willing and able to invest money in businesses. They're hunkering down because of all the uncertainty. ...
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Newspaper Briefing, including 'Recession is necessary and inevitable, says ...
Proactive Investors UK
Gilts: Yields on benchmark ten year gilts sank to a fresh low as worries about the Europes debtcrisis resurfaced and poor American economic data stoked fears about prospects for the globaleconomy. Ten year gilt yields fell three basis points to 2.78% ...
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Get Into Recession Mode
Inside Futures
Their lack of understanding of what actually caused the financial crises in the first place is utterly astonishing. Obama wants to raise taxes on the energy which accounts for 7% of our nation's GDP and energy has been begging to add jobs but are ...
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Analysis: World poorly placed to meet new economic crisis
Reuters
"The difference (between 2008 and now) is that this is not only a currency and bankingcrisis, you have now a currency, banking and sovereign crisis," said Sylvain Broyer, analyst at European financial firm Natixis. The Swiss central bank's shock ...
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Reuters
US Credit Rating Affirmed as Moody's, Fitch Warn of Downgrade on Deficit
Bloomberg
3 (Bloomberg) -- Trevor Greetham, director of asset allocation at Fidelity International, talks about hisinvestment strategy for stocks, bonds and currencies. Greetham also discusses the prospect of further quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve ...
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Making its move to modernity
The Asset
Delayed for at least three years partly because of the global financial crisis, the government needed also to come together and to come to terms with how to tap its natural wealth and how to spread the wealth to its people. It had a false start in 2006 ...
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The Asset
Investors flee stocks for safer ground
msnbc.com
"Tensions in bond markets reflect a growing concern among investors about the systemic capacity of the Euro area to respond to the evolving crisis," Barroso said in a statement. Though most European banks recently passed a financial "stress test," ...
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European shares extend falls; SocGen tumbles
Reuters
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi speaks to parliament later on Wednesday to try to calm fears over escalating market turmoil that has brought Italy to the edge of a Greek-style financial crisis. Yields on Italian 10 year-bonds slipped, ...
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China says US fails to defuse 'debt bomb'
Himalayan Times
China Investment Corp, set up in 2007 to invest a chunk of the country's hefty foreign-exchange stockpile, has been trying to diversify since the global financial crisis struck in 2008. The $400-billion sovereign wealth fund has been increasing its ...
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