 ABC Online Italian banks didn't buy into the sub-prime story; not the collateralised debt obligations (those fandangled financial products based on individual loans in the United States parcelled up and sold around the world). Sub-prime lending was anathema to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mahathir projects steady future for Islamic finance Arab News We are seeing how the Islamic banks have remained unaffected by the current crisis," he said. Mahathir knows a thing or two about steering economies out of financial crises. His government successfully steered Malaysia out of the 1997-98 Asian ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Eurozone Refuses Chinese Demands, Turns Down Bailout Money Business Insider But China doesn't want to be the dumb money. October 30, Zhu Guangyao, ViceFinance Minister, suggested that China would wait and see how the technical details of the fund's proposed special investment vehicles would work out. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Commentary: Credit unions reported a surge in membership after Bank Transfer ... Washington Post This was the straw that broke the camel's back, and consumers, who already were frustrated because of the fallout from the financial crisis, voted with their money and chose Main Street over Wall Street. Credit unions across the country gained ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Dummy's Guide to the Financial Crisis Montreal Gazette The truth is no one knows what's going on. You obviously need a “Dummies' Guide to theFinancial Crisis” and who better to provide it than a financial dummy like me. So ask away: OK, Dr. Dummy: What's happening to the world's economy? ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Scott Bushkie column Strategy has changed in finance game Green Bay Press Gazette Back in the good old days, a buyer would put down somewhere in the ballpark of 15 to 20 percent, the bank would finance 70 to 80 percent, and the seller would get almost all their money at close. Today, financing in the new norm is really dependent on ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Iceland's Fair Value Vultures Credit Writedowns The country is now suffering a second round of economic and financial distress stemming from the collapse of its banking system in October 2008. That crisis caused a huge loss of savings not only for domestic citizens but also for international ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Europe Disatser Headed to U.S. Newsweek But the third reason Americans should care about Europe is more important even than the risk of a renewed financial crisis. It is the danger that what is happening in Europe today could ultimately happen here. Just a few months ago, almost nobody was ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Budget 2012 keyword: responsibility Malta Independent Online “What happened was a financial crisis that nobody saw coming and which brought on an economic crisis beyond even those proportions. And this was not because of energy prices, but because of a scarcity of liquidity and demand – factories were closing, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| How a financial pro ending up losing his home Worcester Telegram I'ma financial adviser. I get paid to help people make smart financial choices, and I speak and write about personal finance issues. My first book comes out in January, “The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things With Money” (Portfolio, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| DSC economic plan announced Voxy The division within the Reserve Bank which carries out the supervisory role over banksand financial institutions will be transformed into a stand-alone, independent, publicly owned organisation, the Prudential Regulatory Authority of New Zealand ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Economy now needs a contingency plan Financial Express Bangladesh Then again unimpressive financial statements of banks are likely to pull the stock market, which is almost in a state of coma, further down. In fact the prevailing circumstances necessitate formulation of contingency plan for managing the economy... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Anxiety Grows over Spillover of EU Debt Crisis in Nigeria THISDAY Live “If we do not act boldly and if we do not act together, the economy around the world runs the risk of downward spiral of uncertainty, financial instability and potential collapse of global demand.” Central Bank governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi had warned... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Patrick Cockburn: Greece and Ireland's dreams of equality go as quickly as the ... The Independent You can't go back to that because they [foreign countries and international banks] don't trust us any more." I spent the past month in Greece and Ireland. In most of Europe, thefinancial crisis is only slowly beginning to deaden economic life, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Can Cyprus survive the euro's crisis of confidence? Cyprus Mail The duo of Sarkozy and Christine Lagarde, the French Finance Minister, held up any real progress on Greece to protect the French banks. Lagarde changed her stance only when she was appointed as Head of the IMF and got a wake- up call. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Spotlight Fixed on Geithner, a Man Obama Fought to Keep Lexington Dispatch Mr. Obama saw Mr. Geithner, especially in the first year, as responsible mainly for thefinancial system, rather than as captain of the economic team, as other previous Treasury secretaries have been. Europe's worsening crisis, and the potential for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Wall Street bonuses are projected to drop up to 30 percent Daily Comet Even Goldman Sachs, a firm known for its earning power, last month reported its first quarterly loss since the financial crisis. Goldman, Bank of America and other Wall Street firms have been cutting thousands of jobs. “It is disappointing,” Johnson ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Aust stocks expected to open higher Ninemsn Check out ninemsn Finance's Tax Time for tips and advice on how to make your 2011/12 tax return work for you. The Australian share market is expected to open higher on Monday after progress was made towards resolution of the Eurozone debt crisis. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Small banks are struggling, too Cincinnati.com Also, less profitable community banks are more vulnerable to takeover by stronger rivals. "These banks are part of the backbone of our economy," says Steve Wyatt, chairman of the finance department at Miami University. "These are important institutions ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| America's New World Order Agenda OpEdNews America, Israel, and key NATO nations are partnered to achieve it. Wars, economicdisruption, financial terrorism, and other upheavals play out in real time. Grand schemes lie behind them. Today's economic crisis wasn't happenstance. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Central Bank Turkeys Tell Tall Tales The Market Oracle The Canadian government said that their economy lost 54000 jobs in October - the most since the financial crisis of 2009. 71000 of those were full-time positions while they added 17000 part-time positions. Bear in mind that Canada is just behind China ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Welcome To A World Where There Are No Risk-Free Investments Business Insider One possible story about the financial crisis is that an unusually rosy period of growth in the west taught us to expect--no, to need--an unsustainably high rate of low-risk return on assets. We made a whole lot of unsustainable promises during the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| David Ignatius: Europe's fiscal circus Journal and Courier They set targets they can't achieve, and then watch as financial traders shoot them down. Betting on European economic incompetence has been a one-way trade for two years now. If you assume the Europeans won't deliver on their promised solutions, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The Great Bonus Debate: Will Financial Stocks Take a Knock? NASDAQ Hedge funds are also more exclusive than big banks – it often takes a lot of money to work with one. Large risks here could mean great falls, but the risks would be contained in a economic group that can better take on the impact. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| GOP ignores Wall Street's role in economic woe CNN The GOP (and some Democrats), at the behest of the banking industry's big moneylobbyists, oppose the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and don't want it to see the light of day. How in the world can we trust that any of these candidates will care ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| How To Prevent A Housing Recovery Seeking Alpha Since the start of the crisis, my research has indicated that only a radical restructuring of homeowner debt, combined with innovations in housing finance, will end the crisis. Prior to the bailout, Obama had the opportunity to bring banks to the table ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Gridlock on deficit panel looms over stock rally Boston.com The S&P 500 jumped another 1.9 percent Friday after Italy passed an economic reform that may help it avert a financial crisis. "We've had two of the three big concerns in the market largely resolved over the last month," said Mark Lamkin, ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: World has Major Funding ... Mish's financial blog covers global news and macroeconomic events ... World has Major Funding Gap; IMF Begs Russia and China for Money; Italy and Greece ... Saxobank chief economist Steen Jakobsen pinged me with an interesting set ... has warned that Asian economies are not immune to the crisis that has engulfed ... globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/.../world-has-major-fun... |
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