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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Sep 05, 2011


BOE Needs Better Governance: Darling
Bloomberg
Darling said that as the financial crisis developed, the Bank of England “didn't have an adequate or anywhere near adequate understanding of what was going on in the banking system.” He said he and King “disagreed with each other as to what ought to be ...
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'There Has Been a Clear Crisis of Confidence'
Spiegel Online
Lagarde: It is a combination of slow growth coming out of the financial crisis and heavy sovereign debt. Both fuel serious concerns about the capital and the strength ofbanks, notably when they hold significant volumes of sovereign bonds. ...
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Spiegel Online
Consensus on need for private debt write-off marks progress
Irish Times
The first, but not the most important, is that the financial crisis that re-erupted at the start of August and threatened to envelop the world once again abated sufficiently to allow room for a bona fide silly season story. This respite may prove short ...
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Banking reform would 'cut growth'
BBC News
The report comes ahead of the Independent Commission on Banking's final recommendations, due next week. The commission has already recommended ring-fencing retail banks to help prevent another financial crisis. The Item Club said the commission's ...
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BBC News
Fascination with gold hampering India's growth
Economic Times
Money locked up in the yellow metal effectively disappears from the economy to become jewellery or sits idle in bank lockers. "Money spent on gold is mostly wasted because it's only hoarded and simultaneously excluded from the financial inter-mediation ...
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Ex-Iceland PM faces court hearing
BBC News
Former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde is due in a special court on charges of "failures of ministerial responsibility" in his handling of the 2008 financial crisis. The country's three main banks collapsed amid economic turmoil. ...
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BBC News
Post-9/11, Wall Street goes from rubble to renaissance
USA Today
The Community Board cites 11 stalled construction sites in lower Manhattan — which were moving forward until the financial crisis restricted the flow of financing — as prime spots for affordable housing development. Local businesses, however ...
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USA Today
Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount
New York Times
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment due this ...
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9/11 introduced new risk to money management
Pensions & Investments
9/11 contributed to the sense that the institutions we rely on are not always in control and that sense of vulnerability affects everything — markets, financial institutions, personal decisions,” Mr. Hill said. That sense of vulnerability dramatically ...
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FTSE live: market report - as it happened, September 2, 2011
Telegraph.co.uk
Investors watch the report as a key barometer of the health of the world's largest economy, which despite its recovery from the worst of the sub-prime mortgage crisisand the global financial meltdown has struggled to create enough jobs to sharply ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
HOW SHOULD THE GOVT EXERCISE OWNER'S RIGHT?
Livemint
In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, Indian banks restructured about 5% of their loans following a directive of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and 10-15% of such loans have turned bad for most banks. Some of these loans have, in fact, ...
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BANKS FEELING PRESSURE AS EPIC US LAWSUIT LOOMS
Express.co.uk
The FHFA alleges the banks sold $200billion (£122billion) of bonds, tied to so-called sub-prime loans, to US mortgage groups Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Many of the borrowers were poor Americans who defaulted on their loans when the financial crisis ...
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Cuts will not end the crisis
The Guardian
Under the extremely robust stress tests conducted by the Financial Services Authority, RBS still had a capital cushion that would allow it to increase its lending significantly. Politicians must be prepared to take on the banks' continued failure to ...
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The Guardian
Workers Play Cards at Indian Factories as Singh Asset-Sale Plan Founders
Bloomberg
About a third of India's 249 state-owned firms that make everything from condoms to steel are losingmoney -- $3.4 billion in the most recent financial year -- just as the government misses a goal of raising $8.7 billion this year selling stakes in ...
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Economy tops agenda for policy makers
CTV.ca
Sentiment measures, such as the Conference Board's index of US consumer confidence, are at levels last seen during the depths of the financial crisis. A survey of purchasing managers released last week suggested that European manufacturing contracted ...
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Niche bank plans revival of 100% mortgages
Financial Times
By Sharlene Goff Aldermore, a small bank that set up in 2009, is to become the first national lender to offer mortgages to borrowers without a cash deposit since these risky loans were withdrawn during the financial crisis. ...
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Thirachai faces tough decision
Bangkok Post
A director of the Financial Institutions Policy Department of the Bank of Thailand until 1999, he played a role in supervising financial institutions before the 1997 financial crisis. Since the SEC is the regulator for the capital market that directly ...
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Bangkok Post
Report exposes corporate governance abuse by pension fund
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“In fact, failure in corporate governance at banks was indeed a principal factor contributing to thefinancial crisis,” Mr Sanusi said in a lecture in Bayero University Kano in February 2010. The crisescost the nation $620 billion in bailout funds and ...
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Slovakia trims its growth forecasts
The Slovak Spectator
The IFP said that uncertainties in global financial markets and a cooling of the economies of Slovakia's largest trading partners had prompted to cut its macro-economic prognosis. Market watchers agreed with that assessment, suggesting that the ...
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First Family Church loses its home
Kansas City Star
Regions Bank demanded $25000 to extend the closing to Aug. 31, the board said, and on Aug. 30, AG Financial made an offer to Regions Bank to finance the church's mortgage. However, the board said, “The work of our church must go on. ...
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Kansas City Star
Easing up on free market policies
Fundweb
How long equity markets will be able to shrug off these macro concerns depends in no small part onsigns that these problems are being brought under control. While thefinancial crisis may have wrenched control of the economy away from the banking ...
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Fundweb
Consulting Conclave - the Roadmap to excellence: a Consultant's Perspective
India Infoline.com
He also shed light on the East Asian financial crisis of the 90's and lack of control on the entry of FII at the time being the main reason behind it. This kind of hot money is something he said the present Asian nations should be careful about. Prof. ...
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Commanding a Recovery
Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition
Yes, the world's financial elite still believe in the recession/recovery concept. What a pity it never seems to work out. The report continues: The global manufacturing recovery appear[s] to have come to a grinding halt in August, activity surveys ...
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Dismal jobs data shakes Asian markets
USA Today
... banking crisis could spread to the US Television screens were filled with images of riots in London. "I'm not surprised that businesses weren't doing too much hiring in that environment," Jeff Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial. ...
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USA Today
When a takeover effort becomes taxing
Sydney Morning Herald
If so, should I use the profit to take the loan back to zero balance this financial year? DH Some background for readers: the AMP takeover on March 30 resulted in AXA shareholders receiving 0.73 of an AMP share plus $2.5464 cash for each AXA share. ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Editorial: Mr. President, we need jobs
The Detroit News
The Dodd-Frank financial regulations should be re-examined for their impact on the credit markets.Banks say the new rules regarding risk and capitalization limit their ability to make loans, particularly to small- and midsize businesses that create ...
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