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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Aug 24, 2011


Fed Made State Street Profitable as Middleman
Bloomberg
“Had we implemented the program with less attractive terms, we would have risked falling short in our effort to stop the run on money-market mutual funds and seeing a far worse financial crisis.” Nelson said the central bank earned “an appropriate ...
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Debt lesson unlearnt
Asia Times Online
By Hossein Askari Debt is at the foundation of the global economic and financial crisis gripping the world. Yet the problem with debt is nothing new. For decades, if not centuries, the rapid growth of debt has been the source of asset bubbles, ...
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How to Be Sustainable Across All Assets in Your Portfolio
Reuters
In our next feature, we will share more examples for "parking" your cash - but ask your bank or credit union, "where does my money sleep at night?" As with any loans or bonds, these tend to be lower risk in comparison to equities, but are not immune ...
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Dollar loans get scarce for companies
Livemint
The situation is not something to panic about, said Jamal Mecklai, CEO of Mecklai FinancialServices Ltd. “The prevailing situation is no doubt bad. But it is not as bad as the 2008 crisis,” he said. “However, India should now move forward a bit ...
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Panic & Anxiety Swirl a Storm
Gold Seek
In the US financial sector, the innovation is with carry trade speculation, exploitation of easy money facilities, and profound bond fraud, hardly the stuff of growth mechanisms. Big banks do not lend when they can reliably make money on the USTreasury ...
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Gold Seek
Newspaper Briefing, including 'Global economy loses momentum' - Guardian
Proactive Investors UK
Goldman Sachs braced for legal battles over financial crisis: Goldman Sachs, the embattledinvestment bank, will face an array of legal claims focusing on its conduct during the financial crisis, one of Wall Streets most feared lawyers warned. ...
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US Treasuries: A Once-in-50-year Event
TMC Net
Manufacturing and housing in the US was booming. It was a creditor nation (countries borrowedmoney from us.). Fifty years later, America is the world's biggest debtor nation. Some say we face a debt crisis. But investors still run to our bonds. Why? ...
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Currency Collapse - Where Now ?
The Market Oracle
The euro's former and supposed "bright potential" of replacing the dollar as the globalreserve currency has disappeared in the space of 9 months. In exactly the same way as US, European and Japanese banks, insurers and financial players "piled in" to ...
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Oil-Rich Libyans Won't Need Foreign Financial Backing in Post-Qaddafi Era
Bloomberg
Oil aside, the economy offers investment opportunities in industries including tourism, mining, agriculture financial services, according to Bengdara, 45. International and Arab banks including HSBC Holdings Plc, Standard Chartered Plc, Unicredit SpA ...
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Global equity markets are behaving irrationally
Stockopedia
This is not a repeat of the global financial crisis in 2008 but an aftershock and an overreaction. John Templeton, one of the great contrarian investors of the past century said “Invest at the point of maximum pessimism”, I agree. ...
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GLOBAL MARKETS-European stocks seen up Asia rally runs out of steam
Reuters
Last year, Bernanke used the Jackson Hole meet to prepare the ground for the Fed's second round of quantitative easing, a $600 billion bond-buying programme designed to pump cash and confidence into financial markets that became known as "QE2". ...
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GLOBAL MARKETS-World stocks, oil, gain on stimulus hopes
Reuters
Financial markets have been in turmoil for the past month on concerns the United States may be headed for another recession and as the euro zone's debt crisis has worsened. Steep recent losses have put the MSCI All-Country World Index and S&P 500 on ...
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How gloomy should we be about the economy?
Salon
As the economic blogger Felix Salmon pointed out on Monday, one of the most distressing legacies of the financial crisis is that the very fact that even though "national and super-national treasuries and central banks managed to come to the rescue and ...
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Portfolios should reflect economic uncertainty
Napa Valley Register
If investors learned anything from the 2008 financial crisis, it is that “systemic risks” in a globaleconomy affect us all. A systemic risk is one that can effect an entire segment of a country's economy. Today, we are faced with several simultaneous ...
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