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| This Time Really Is Different (Is the Money There for Europe and the Rest of ... Huffington Post (blog) It is not just Christine Lagarde but Robert Zoellick of the World Bank (and his counterparts at the regional banks) who should be fussing and corralling and persuading and convening. As part of this effort to avoid a global financial crisis, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fragile global economy may hit Singapore growth TODAYonline by Ryan Huang Wenwu SINGAPORE - The world economy and financial system are at their most fragile since the 2008-2009 global credit crisis, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said as it urged borrowers and lenders here to be vigilant. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Financial Challenges Expose Weaknesses in Greece's Economy and Aristocracy ... Balkanalysis.com When the current financial crisis began two years ago in Greece, a frustrated Nea Dimokratia blamed the roots of it on chronic fiscal mismanagement on the part of PASOK, which had ruled almost uninterruptedly since 1981, and particularly financial... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Terence Corcoran: From Keynes to euroflation Financial Post It did not turn to the Bank of Canada to bail it out with a massive blast of printedmoney. Had politicians tried to get the Bank of Canada to buy up Ottawa's debt, there would have been massive opposition from Canada's financial and economic ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Virgin takeover of Northern Rock offers limited hope for better rates Financial Times By Elaine Moore Sir Richard Branson's purchase of Northern Rock will present consumers with a new high street banking brand untainted by the financial crisis – but analysts are unsure whether an enlarged Virgin Money will offer customers market-beating ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Zoellick Says Europe May Get Support From China, U.S. Via IMF San Francisco Chronicle Zoellick, who took his job at the Washington-based lender in July 2007, said the bankis working on the fallout of the European debt turmoil in regions such as the Balkans, where trade finance is drying up. It's also looking into how North African ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 'Prosperity was illusion created by global credit bubble' Royal Gazette In the first of a four-part series on understanding the global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, Bermuda Commercial Bank treasurer Dane Commissiong looks at the roots of the crisis. To even the casual observer of the global economy it is ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Lithuania sees no need for public money in Snoras restructuring Reuters The Finance ministry said preliminary contacts regarding possible support to Snoras were made with the EC, but no decisions have been taken. The takeover is the first major Baltic bank crisis since Latvia rescued a top bank in 2008, forcing it to seek ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Europe Fears a Credit Squeeze as Investors Sell Bond Holdings New York Times By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and ERIC DASH Nervous investors around the globe are accelerating their exit from the debt of European governments and banks, increasing the risk of a credit squeeze that could set off a downward spiral. Financial institutions are ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| What is a Sovereign Debt Crisis? Why is it so Scary? International Business Times Moreover, economic and financial downturns often require the government to rescuebanks and revive the economy through fiscal stimulus, which adds on even more debt burden. For healthy governments, borrowing costs are actually low in the “bust” phrase... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Who Blinks First? Bad Bets in Europe and America Huffington Post (blog) As yet unresolved is whether those banks' governments will come to their rescue if they end up on the verge of failing. When people, financial institutions, and governments make bad bets, someone has to lose money. In the case of Greece, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Markets remain nervous in face of euro debt woes eTaiwan News By PAN PYLAS AP Financial markets remained volatile on Friday in the face of a European debt crisis that has widened and deepened over the past week. Investors have become increasingly fidgety about the prospect of Spain and Italy succumbing to the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| MONEY WEEK AHEAD: Bond Safe Havens Face Big Questions Wall Street Journal By Cynthia Lin Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A pair of ultrasafe financial assets will face heightened scrutiny as their respective economiesreach fiscal crossroads, and investors are starting to believe one is ready to leave the other ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| ECB Under Pressure - The Bank Funding Crisis Escalates: Part 1 Seeking Alpha In a fractionally reserved banking system based on fiat money, a mere slowdown in the growth of the supply of money and credit is all it takes to bring the economy to the point of crisis. Essentially what is happening is that the many malinvestments in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US sharemarket rises on IMF plan for bailout firepower The Australian The notion that the International Monetary Fund may call on the European Central Bankto lend it money to finance bailouts is gaining traction, according to Dow Jones Newswires. If all parties agree, a deal could be announced at the December 9 European... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Getting ahead of a fiscal "China Syndrome" (XIN, DBA, DBB, GA) NASDAQ As the owner of the banks, the state has the authority to recapitalize troubled banksand mandate loans. During a 24-month period around the financial crisis, Chinesebanks, following orders from the government, made loans for $2.7 trillion or about ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| BoT denies FIDF liability rejig Bangkok Post The Finance Ministry's hopes of restructuring the financial bailout fund's massive liabilities, incurred amid the 1997 economic crisis, with the Bank of Thailand have failed. The framework established in the aftermath of the crisis, with the central ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Puzzling Over a Market's Thrusts Barron's The bulls are countering with the quite-logical point that one difference between now and 2008 is that, back in 2008, we didn't have the worst financial crisis in our lifetimes staring at us in our rear-view mirrors at a distance of a mere three years. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Salomon Brothers Training Class of 1985 and Lessons Learned Huffington Post (blog) Let's look at the money. The whole bonus compensation model is distorted, seemingly operating under the old private partnership model, paying out a large portion of revenues -- about half the revenues in recent times. When financial institutions went ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| National economic trends likely to hit home: Economic growth expected to slow ... The Saratogian We've got to get people back to work. That's what is going to grow our economy. Otherwise, we'll just keep moving sideways." Arrow Financial is the parent company of both Saratoga and Glens Falls National Bank & Trust companies. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The Next Big Growth Markets Barron's Aren't they affected by the European crisis? How about banks funding project management? Plenty of other financial institutions and private-equity guys should be regarding this as an opportunity. The most important place to the growth markets and the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Occupy Vancouver protesters should give big thanks to banks Vancouver Sun Millions flow from banks to hospitals and universities each year. All that is well and good, but didn't Canadian banks act as badly as American financial institutions in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis? The short answer is no. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TSX declines three weeks running Montreal Gazette "The underlying reason why they are buying bonds is negative but the fact that they are doing it is being viewed as positive," said Fabian Eliasson, head of US currency sales at Mizuho Financial Group Inc. in New York. "It's a monetary policy that's in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Dj Vu All Over Again Daily Markets (press release) At the time the US was at least a couple quarters into the worst economic decline since the Great Depression and the financial system was imploding. The main difference now is sovereign governments are in crisis for bailing out their banks and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Analysis: Deficit deadlock may send new chill through markets Reuters How financial markets will react if a committee created to slash $1.2 trillion in federal spending over 10 years fails to strike a deal is a tough call, partly because investors have been distracted by a Europe's more immediate debt crisis. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Stocks End Mixed, but Sharply Lower for Week CNBC.com ECB is considering a move to lend money to the IMF that would be used to financebailouts to heavily debt-ridden euro zone countries, according to a report. Meanwhile, other reports say Germany and the ECB remain opposed to the plan, but talks could ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| BHP Billiton Leads US Bond Sales in Biggest Month Since May Bloomberg “They may be impacted by a global slowdown but at the same time, they are notfinancial names you associate with exposure,” to Europe. Of the $92 billion of bond offerings this month, banks have accounted for about 15 percent, or $13.45 billion, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Partisan Politics' Threat to Your Portfolio Barron's Otherwise, he says, "we will face a financial crisis of biblical propositions." Domestic investors are paying closer attention to events in Europe than to the supercommittee and its failure will have little near-term impact, says Mauldin. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 5 Startling Figures That Should Have You Worried About Italy Motley Fool By Sean Williams | More Articles I'm more or less convinced that the next crisis in Europe is going to be caused by the kitchen sink. Lately, weaker financial systems in the European Union have been toppling like dominoes and the European Financial ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| IMF Survey: Afghanistan to Get $133.6 Million IMF Loan Afghanistan has started to take corrective steps in wake of Kabul Bank crisis; IMFprogram provides framework to manage economic impact of troop ... to effectively manage the Kabul Bank crisis and strengthen the financial sector based on .... area of anti-money laundering, and enhancing supervision and enforcement; and ... www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/.../CAR111511A.htm |
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