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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Aug 11, 2011


Central banking and the crisis
The Economist
Central banks may be the last people standing, but they cannot produce better growth out of nowhere. The emerging markets which provided a cushion during the financial crisis look less helpful now, especially if they put up capital controls in the face ...
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Europe Crisis Won't Lead to Lehman-Style Meltdown, Magnus Says
Bloomberg
11 (Bloomberg) -- George Magnus, a senior economic adviser at UBS Investment Bank, discusses European banks and the region's sovereign debt crisis. Magnus, speaking with Francine Lacqua on Bloomberg Television's "On the Move," also talks about monetary ...
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Dollar funding pressures heat up in FX swaps
Reuters
The temporary Thursday level was up 20 bps in a little more than a week and approaching a peak of 77 bps reached during the financial crisis. "Though we have tools like the Fed's swap lines and massive dollar deposits by some of these European banks ...
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We're Doomed!
Daily Beast
Between the crazy markets and gridlock in Washington and Europe, our economicoptions are increasingly limited, says Charles R. Morris. If we continue on this path, we'll be facing another major crisis. Over the last few days, global markets have been...
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Daily Beast
Investors should take heed of lessons from 2008 market meltdown say experts
Winnipeg Free Press
He says investors who remained invested in a balanced portfolio of stocks, bonds and treasury bills throughout the last crisis into the recovery outperformed those who fled equities entirely to bonds. But investment author Gordon Pape doesn't quite see ...
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Crisis Lessons Learned, Commercial-Paper Market Skates Through Tumult
Wall Street Journal
Issuers also are more credit-worthy because the riskiest ones were driven out of business during thefinancial crisis, though investors still steer clear of lending to some European banks. Meanwhile, the remaining investors are less prone to panic, ...
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Bank of America Corporation Special Call
Seeking Alpha
However, if you think about it, the fundamentals are so much better in our country and in our company and in our industry than they were 4 years ago when last the financial crisis hit. There's a lot less leverage, whether it's for consumers' leverage, ...
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Financial markets
The Economist
At least the central banks are having a positive effect, however temporary. Politicians, meanwhile, have left investors with serious doubts about their ability to handle the crisis. European leaders have moved from an initial stance of denial about the ...
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Richard Boyd Barrett Press Release
Socialist Worker
In a statement, Richard Boyd Barrett TD for the People Before Profit Alliance, has said that the dramatic worsening of the global economic and financial crisis in recent days has demonstrated the abysmal failure of the policy of bailing-out banks and ...
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Fairfax's Watsa sees Dirty Thirties pain ahead
Globe and Mail
While banks, insurers, and investors were watching their assets disintegrate in thefinancial crisis of 2008, Fairfax was raking in profits, thanks to bets it had made against a number of major financial institutions, including American International ...
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Globe and Mail
We're not Wilde about Obama vision
Sydney Morning Herald
While that statement may have been designed to lift spirits, it failed to lift the market, which ended Monday's session down 634.76 points, or 5.5 per cent - its biggest one-day fall since the global financial crisis in 2008. ...
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Retirees: 6 Takeaways From the Recent Market Drop
Morningstar.com
The most recent market action, while not as violent or scary as the bear market that coincided with the financial crisis, nonetheless carries some takeaways for retired investors or those looking to hang up the workaday life within the next few years. ...
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Economic turmoil means homebuyers will continue to benefit from lower lending ...
Edmonton Journal
And while no financial institutions have made a move yet, McKinley said the expectation is that rates will come down in the fallout from the cascade of economic developments that began with the European Union's sovereign debt crisis and includes ...
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Bulls Unwind Bets In EM, But Instability Less A Risk This Time
Wall Street Journal
The Brazilian real was little changed Wednesday even as risk aversion stayed high in globalmarkets. As risk aversion rises, banks in many parts of the world and especially in Europe are paying more to raise dollars. And in past financial crises, ...
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US stocks rise on unemployment claims report, Cisco outlook a day after Dow's ...
Newser
Worries that the continent's debt problems could hurt the banks that own European governmentbonds have weighed heavily on financial stocks and the broader market. Pain for European bankscould lead to more trouble for the US banking industry and the ...
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Too Big To Fail? The US Debt Crisis And Its Implications - Analysis
Eurasia Review
The scenario of a financial domino effect worldwide is threatening to become reality. A crashing US economy would not only hurt other individual economies but also have implications for overall globalstability. The question is whether there will be ...
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Saudi urged to cut investment in US
Emirates 24/7
In addition, recent concerns that Europe's debt crisis could spread to Italy, the Euro-zone's third-largest economy, accentuated fears of a vicious new global economic downturn, it added. The study noted that oil prices sank more than $10 a barrel last ...
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Thursday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories ...
FinFacts Ireland
A misguided focus on budget cutting has plunged the European Union and the United States down paths that will prolong their economic stagnation and perhaps tip them into another recession. Financial Turmoil Evokes Comparison to 2008 Crisis - -Stocks ...
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FinFacts Ireland
Grey clouds in Dookeran's 'blue skies'
Trinidad News
Noting that world financial markets have been further destabilised by the spread of the debt crisisfrom the peripheral countries of the Euro area to Italy and Spain, the Bank said, "These developments against the background of weakening growth in the ...
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NBR Transcripts-August 10, 2011-Full Episode
PBS Nightly Business Report
BRIAN MOYNIHAN, CEO, BANK OF AMERICA: The fundamentals are so much better in our country, and in our company, and in our industry, than they were four years ago, when last thefinancial crisis hit. MILLER: Moynihan also tried to bolster confidence by ...
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10-Q: TIAA REAL ESTATE ACCOUNT
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Yet these positive indicators have not been sufficient to overcome larger global and domestic forces. Europe remains mired in a debt crisis, with lingering problems in Greece raising expectations of a default and increasing concerns about other ...
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Newspaper Briefing, including 'The coming world of smaller banks' - Financial ...
Proactive Investors UK
Investors worried about the outlook for the global economy dumped risky assets and snapped up UK gilts bonds or IOUs issued by the UK to raise money. Bupa warns of hospital beds crisis as age care sector suffers: Bupa warned the haemorrhage of ...
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Analysts' outlook suggests further decline in equities market performance
BusinessDay
Bismarck Rewane, CEO, Financial Derivatives Company Limited, believes that two schools of thought are possible in the stock market outlook. First, the bulls which must be accompanied by improved corporate results that will stimulate renewed interest in ...
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BusinessDay
Prins: Debt from bailouts didn't pan out
Newsday (subscription)
The majority of the debt created by the Treasury since the financial crisis is either sitting on the Federal Reserve's books doing nothing or was used to bolster various elements of the banking system through providing cheap loans to banks, ...
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Newsday (subscription)
Post Newsletters & Alerts
Washington Post (blog)
In an ominous echo of 2008, European bank stocks on Wednesday fell 10 percent or more -- andbanks in Europe are beginning to hoard cash, crimping the interbank loans that keep the global financial system operating smoothly. While borrowing costs for ...
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