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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Nov 01, 2011


Russia offers $10 billion for Eurozone bailout
RIA Novosti
This ambition could also be achieved by expanding its presence in international organizations that control financial flows. China's growing role in the IMF and otherfinancial groupings was one of the most discussed topics at the first G-20 summits, ...
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US will lack muscle at eurozone crisis meeting
Chicago Tribune
Brazil, uneasy about being asked to bail out a rich nation, insists that any of its moneybe administered through the IMF, as was the case during the Latin American debt crisesof the 1980s and '90s. When finance ministers from the G-20 nations met in ...
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Spain's Economic Crisis Shows the Eurozone Can't Escape its Debt Trap
Money Morning
In Greece's case, its faltering economy led to a series of bailouts from the European Commission (EC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European CentralBank (ECB), to avoid default. But the Greek economy is among the Eurozone's smallest. ...
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Europe Banks Cut Jobs as Debt Crisis Ends 'Years of Plenty'
BusinessWeek
1 (Bloomberg) -- European banks are accelerating job cuts as the region's debt crisisshrinks revenue and regulators force financial firms to bolster capital. Credit Suisse Group AG, Switzerland's second-biggest bank, said today it will eliminate about ...
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* Greek referendum fears threaten bank financing window
Reuters
"In particular, weaker rated or peripheral financial institutions tend to issue more at the front end of the curve," Schuller said, adding that this also pushed spreads wider. Signs of the renewed stress were also visible in money markets where the ...
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MF Global files for bankruptcy, undone by Europe's financial crisis
Los Angeles Times
That strategy helped a number of Wall Street firms record big profits before the financial crisis, but it was widely blamed for the troubles that Lehman Bros. and other firms encountered during the crisis. Since the crisis, mostbanks have scaled back ...
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Los Angeles Times
Japan keeps market edgy after nearly $100 billion intervention
Reuters
However, Azumi argued that Tokyo's action was justified in the light of last month's G20 statement warning that excess currency volatility hurt economic and financialstability. "I will tell them exactly what has happened. That is, (the yen) has not ...
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Report Says New York Fed Didn't Cut Deals on AIG
New York Times
The agency's report revisits a controversial chapter in the history of the financial crisis: the government's decision to sink tens of billions of dollars into AIG, the world's largest insurance company, which was running out of money to cover its vast ...
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For Obama, eurozone crisis takes precedence at G20
The Associated Press
However, they noted that the International Monetary Fund, with USfinancial assistance, could be called on to assist. "Obviously the challenges facing Europe have significant implication for the US economyand for the global economy," said Lael ...
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The Associated Press
Circular commitments lead to a Ponzi economy
Financial Times
It is becoming ever more obvious that, in a fiat money regime, the merging of monetary and fiscal policies together with a commitment by governments to support banks, and central banks to support financial markets, results in the whole financial system ...
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Europe Crisis Takes Toll on Barclays
Wall Street Journal
Barclays finance chief Chris Lucas trumpeted the company's funding position as "rock solid." But he acknowledged that the relatively muted third-quarter fund raising reflected "reticence" among investors to lend money to banks for stretches of more ...
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Oil prices tumble on euro zone debt crisis
Reuters
The Greek move stunned financial markets, sending the dollar up more than 1.8 percent while the euro tumbled. Stock markets and commodities fell sharply. Investors are afraid Europe will be unable to stop its sovereign debt crisis from spreading, ...
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Reuters
Responsible Indian microfinance in India: Still a pipedream year after crisis
Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine
Only this will help the larger cause of financial inclusion and responsible microfinance as deeper crisis situations can be avoided Last but not the least, the most important cog in the responsible microfinance wheel is the larger infrastructure and ...
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November 1, 2011: Some News That Matters
Business Insider
This, in turn, triggers further selling. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8861179/Italys-crisis-deepens-on-eurozone-slump-bail-out-doubts.html Brazil will overtake the UK to become the world's sixth biggest economy this year, ...
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Business Insider
Michael Lewis on Wall Street, Europe, and the Next Big Crisis
DailyFinance
It was Kyle Bass who told him that the European sovereign debt crisis would follow on the heels of the financial crisis of 2008. Bass saw that governments were effectively guaranteeing their countries' banking assets, which would lead to countries ...
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A multipolar international monetary system? Not yet
The Nation
Currently, the IMF cannot fulfill the disciplinary role against the large shareholders, nor can it create credit sufficiently to help resolve the growing financial crises. IMF resources are roughly US$400 billion, and it would have to be increased by a ...
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The Nation
European Debt Crisis: This Is How You Should Think About It
Business Insider
Also Sprach Analyst is a website on global finance and economics with a special focus on China and Hong Kong economy, finance, and real estate. Yes, I keep saying that European debt crisis is not solved if, summit after summit, the solution of it is to ...
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Reflections on Iceland and the financial crisis - Part 5
Opinion250 News (blog)
There was no doubt that the banks, along with international hedge funds, currency manipulators, and foreign governments had all played a major role in the financial andeconomic calamity that had descended on the country. ...
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FTSE 100 Puts Highest to Europe as Traders Lock in Gain: Options
San Francisco Chronicle
While British stocks have performed better than 20 out of 24 developed markets this year amid the European financial crisis, traders are betting equities will fall after Cameron pledged to eliminate the nation's deficit by 2015. ...
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Secondary Sources: ECB, European Crisis, NGDP Targeting
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Phil Izzo –European Central Bank: Brad DeLong says the ECB needs to be more concerned about stability. “The ECB continues to believe that financial stability is not part of its core business. As its outgoing president, Jean-Claude Trichet, put it, ...
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Analysis:China reshuffle could accelerate capital market reforms
Reuters
In this file photo, China Construction Bank Chairman Guo Shuqing reacts during a news conference in Hong Kong June 24, 2010. By Samuel Shen and Kazunori Takada SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's reshuffle of keyfinancial regulators a year earlier than ...
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Reuters
DRPA set to decide - finally - how to spend leftover development money ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Paul Nussbaum Faced with competing demands for $29 million in unspenteconomic-development funds - including from food banks with a "pending crisis" - a Delaware River Port Authority panel may decide this month how to spend the money. ...
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PM leaves for Cannes on Wednesday to attend G20 Summit
NDTV.com
The move to impose small tax on financial transactions as a mechanism to force markets to help pay for government efforts to rescue an economy laid low in part by their excesses is also expected to engage the attention of the G20 leaders. ...
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In a promising sign for the state's economy, Michigan banks and credit unions ...
Detroit Free Press
More than three years after the financial crisis caused banks to clamp down on their lending, the government-backed loans are driving much of the lending activity at many Michigan banks and credit unions. In the aftermath of the crisis, banks have ...
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EIB cuts funds for small businesses
Telegraph.co.uk
The EIB has been an important source of small business loans since thefinancial crisis when it pledged to lend an additional £27bn across Europe and ease its lending criteria. Since 2008, UK banks have borrowed more than £1.7bn from the EIB under the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Political crisis, prospect of sanctions hit Lebanon, says Moody's
CPI Financial
Failure to fund the STL could lead to economic or financial sanctions from the international community. While sanctions appear unlikely, Moody's cautions that potential consequences could be severe. The stability of the Lebanese banking sector rests ...
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CPI Financial
White House Press Gaggle by Jay Carney to Preview President Obama's Trip to ...
eNews Park Forest
The President has also put forward a financial crisis responsibility fee that would be directed at the largest financial institutions that really impose the greatest costs on theeconomy. We think it's pretty well designed to both deter the kind of ...
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Debt crisis will test mettle of new ECB head Draghi
CTV.ca
The OECD has urged the central bank to cut interest rates in response to deteriorating conditions and has called for greater deployment of the ECB's balance sheet to combat the debt crisis and stabilize the battered financial system. ...
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Worldwide Recession and the Credit Rating Agencies: What Is Their Impact On ...
Center for Research on Globalization
While rating agencies can have an effect on individual countries, they can also effect the global economic system at large as can be seen by their actions in the current global financial crisis. As we all now know, the major reason for the near global ...
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Center for Research on Globalization
India's Road to Financial Freedom
Wall Street Journal
Its latest rationale: a state-dominated banking system somehow saved India from the global financial crisis. Freeing up lending will probably now require directives from the government, if not legislation from parliament. ...
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Wall Street Journal
Credit-Default Swap Risk Bomb Is Wired to Explode: Mark Buchanan
BusinessWeek
Through CDS contracts, AIG's failure could have spread distress throughout the globalfinancial system. The AIG case illustrates an important paradox that looms again in today's European debt crisis. Like regular insurance, credit-default swaps offer a ...
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FTSE CLOSE: Stocks slide as wary investors take profits amid doubts over ...
This is Money
The OECD's downgrade to 2012 growth forecasts for the US economyfrom 3.1 per cent to 1.8 per cent was another blow. Wall Street's Dow Jones is 125.2 points in the red at 12106 as traders digest the troubles of broker MF Global Finance. ...
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This is Money
Mortgage Bond Prices Show Refinancing Limits: Credit Markets
Bloomberg
“There will be more lender resources devoted to HARP as the regular refi business takes a back seat,” said Walt Schmidt, a mortgage strategist in Chicago at FTN Financial, the brokerage unit of First Horizon National Corp. “You've got a fulcrum right ...
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US Stocks Decline Amid Growing Concern About European Funding
BusinessWeek
The S&P 500 traded at 11.7 times reported income on Oct. 3, within 14 percent of its price-earnings ratio at the bottom of the financial crisis in March 2009, Bloomberg data show. The index gained 3.8 percent last week. --With assistance from Natalie ...
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US Finds Culprit
Bay Area Indymedia
The success of the term “debt crisis” is one modern example for the possibility of completely deceiving people and the media. This crisis is a crisis of the banks and the entire financial management. The financial crisis originally had little to do ...
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From Greek tragedy to farce
FX-MM
The tightening of rates in 2008 was the manifestation of Trichet's failure to realise that the rules of central banking had been changed by the financial crisis. Many were questioning the wisdom of inflation-targeting at a time of heightened financial ...
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Ten Reasons Not To Bank On (Or With) Bank Of America
Business Insider
Brad Miller (D-North Carolina), who resides in Bank of America's headquarters state, to introduce a bill to protect customers from such fees. 2. To recoup ongoing losses from its stupendously dumb acquisitions of Countrywide Financial and Merrill Lynch ...
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Business Insider
BOJ Losses Exceed $281 Million Buying ETFs as Stocks Slump
BusinessWeek
This isn't the first time the central bank has bought stocks. The BOJ in October 2002 purchased shares that financial firms owned in other companies to stem losses atbanks after the Topix plunged 52 percent from a peak in February 2000. ...
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A Slow-Growth America Can't Lead the World
Wall Street Journal
Excessive government borrowing and problem banks are the source of the current crisisin Europe, which has in turn increased economic and financial risks for the US Some countries, including Mexico and Brazil, are complaining that the Fed is exporting ...
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Germany—Admitting the Reality
theTrumpet.com
And now, amid the greatest crisis the EU has ever experienced, the German Constitutional Court has slapped a temporary injunction on the German committee convened to speed the process of German contributions to the European FinancialStability Facility ...
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Financial Services Field Hearing Shows Excess Rules and Regulations Hurt ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
It's not right that local institutions who had nothing to do with the financial crisis are now being punished for Wall Street's mistakes," Duffy said. "It's so important to understand how onerous regulations affect small businesses, local credit unions ...
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Five ways the European debt crisis could affect the US
For Obama, the US financial crisis that preceded his election set the stage for three years of economic volatility. But at least in 2009, he took office ...
www.usatoday.com/money/world/story/2011-10-27/.../1?...
Financial crisis II, in theatres now
In the crisis of late 2008 and early 2009, central banks and finance ... The IMF's head, Christine Lagarde, would like Beijing to allow the Chinese currency ...
www.smh.com.au/.../financial-crisis-ii-in-theatres-now-201110...
Debt crisis: live - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8846201/Debt-crisis-live.html? service=artBody ... 14.05 To go with Bruno's report below, Channel 4 News economics editor .... the economic and financial conditions associated with the new EU-IMF ...Repeating the bank bonus tax - and using the money to build homes and ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/.../8846201/Debt-crisis-live.html
The eurozone financial crisis explained – USATODAY.com
Among the 17 nations that use the euro, financial bailouts are having a ripple effect. ...not sought bailout loans, but their increasingly severe economic troubles raise that likelihood. Sources: AP, IMF, Eurostat; State Department, European Central Bank and.... For the latest Money news, follow USATODAYMONEY On Twitter. ...
www.usatoday.com/money/world/story/2011-10-26/.../1

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