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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Aug 23, 2011


Eurozone Crackup
CounterPunch
Regulators are seeking to avoid a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis, when the global financialsystem began to seize up. This time the worry is that the euro-zone debt crisis could eventually hinder the ability of European banks to fund loans and ...
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William Greiner | Recession of confidence
Kansas City Star
It is becoming clear – the world is facing a confidence issue. William B. Greiner is president and chief investment officer of Scout Investments, an affiliate of UMBFinancial. He also is lead portfolio manager of the Scout Global Equity Fund.
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Kansas City Star
I-banks hope Diwali season will perk up share sales
Livemint
For the 15-day period before Diwali, the Sensex has given a 4-4.5% return on average, except in 2008, when US financial services firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. declared bankruptcy in September, triggering a global financial crisis. ...
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The Destructive Power of the Financial Markets
Spiegel Online
With the central banks lending money at low rates, speculation could continue. Thefinancial industry recovered quickly as a result, and now it is just as powerful as it was before the crisis -- and just as dangerous, for both the economy and society ...
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Spiegel Online
Smithers Sees 'Significant' S&P 500 Rally Before Retreat Resumes
Bloomberg
In October 2009, he said the S&P 500 was about 40 percent overvalued and would drop as centralbanks were likely to wind up programs to stimulate the economy during the global financial crisis. The S&P 500 gained about 23 percent from Oct. 2009 through ...
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Transaction tax albatross
Advisor.ca
At this point, the Fed would accomplish nothing substantial in terms of credit creation and/or employment growth by injecting more liquidity into the financial system. Banksare awash with liquidity and both funding rates and lending rates are ...
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Advisor.ca
How concentration is rotting the capital market
Ha'aretz
It's not for nothing that Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer sounded the alarm, with 30% of the public's money invested in six corporate groups following the global financial crisis. Only the big guys know how to issue bonds nowadays. ...
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Economy slipping closer to double dip
Futures Magazine
I expect negative financial reports from the Euro Banks which could easily spill over to their US counterparts. I continue to expect an accelerated global recession. Energies: September crude oil closed at $82.26 per barrel tied to expectations of a ...
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FPA Capital Fund Quarterly Commentary
GuruFocus.com
These stocks gave up some of their large gains they had previously experienced. We began trimming three of these stocks as their share prices were running up during the quarter. Cimarex was acquired during the financial crisis when its stock was ...
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EUR/USD gained last week
FXstreet.com
Wednesday – The pair made its weekly high of 1.4516 before selling off after a meeting between French President Sarkozy and German Chancellor Merkel failed to come up with a viable solution to the financial crisis. In economic releases, the EZ Current ...
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Are we all wrong about end of America?
Equitymaster.com
When they recovered more strongly than their developed counterparts from the subprime crisis,global investors made a run for their shores to capitalise on the strong growth prospects there. This posed a problem for governments and central banks of ...
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Investing: Five things you might want to consider doing right now
MindfulMoney
Emerging nations are growing rapidly and the financial mess in the crash zone of Europe and the US is an opportunity for them to increase global market shares. They are winners from the crisis, if in the worst case only relatively. ...
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Asian stocks give up early gains on global woes gold up
Moneycontrol.com
Markets will also watch data on bond buying by the European Central Bank and debt issuance by European countries such as Italy on Tuesday to see if the euro zone's debt crisis is worsening. Also on Tuesday, a raft of preliminary manufacturing data will...
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Moneycontrol.com
Humidity, volatility fail to deter banker flow to Asia
IBNLive.com
Asia's financial markets are down this year, and while hiring continues in certain areas, the industry is a long way off from its high-flying days before the credit crisis. Still, a steady stream of US and European-based bankers continue to make the ...
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Swing in markets leaves players uncertain
Business Day
"What I'm seeing right now is a crisis of confidence, more so than an economic crisis or financial crisis necessarily," said Natalie Trunow, chief investment officer of equities at Calvert InvestmentManagement. She cited "the inability by policy ...
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