 LoanSafe [Aleksandrowicz] To what extent are we sovereign in our economic policies, and to what extent dependent on world events? [Rostowski] As Leszek Balcerowicz [former financeminister and central bank governor] said recently, the only truly economically ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Hungary Banks, Treasury Fees, South Korea Banks, CDR Financial: Compliance Bloomberg FSOC Proposes Dodd-Frank Rule on Assessments for Treasury The Financial Stability Oversight Council, a group of regulators charged with preventing a financial crisis, approved a proposal Dec. 29 outlining how the US Treasury's assessment fee would be... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Is the Euro Crisis Over? Real News Network The intermediary function, which means the banks are supposed to get money tofinance productive purposes in the real economy, broke completely. The banks did the opposite. They provided funds to the least productive activities, the most fraudulent, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Threats to Greece's Debt Deal Wall Street Journal (blog) By Matina Stevis AP A flare burns in front of riot police during a protest about the European financial crisis in front of the parliament in Athens in November 2011. The process of imposing losses to private-sector holders of Greek debt–known as ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Banks start 2012 with a bang. Why? CNN That's why some money managers think that smaller, regional banks are better investments if you believe the US economy is really on the mend and that financialstocks should get a corresponding lift. It's easier to understand banks that stick to the... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Morning Take-Out New York Times (blog) In the first half of 2011, the dollar volume of announced mergers worldwide neared its highest level since the financial crisis. But that momentum proved fragile as deal volume tumbled 19 percent, to about $1.1 trillion, in the second half of 2011 from ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Will the global economy finally recover in 2012? TIME (blog) If the debt crisis truly reaches a meltdown in Europe, dragging down European banks, the ripple effect on the American financial sector will damage the outlook even further. So it is more important than ever that Europe's leaders find ways to support ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tuesday Papers: Economic consensus foresees a bleak 2012 Citywire.co.uk The Daily Telegraph (Comment): With the crisis close to its worst point, 2012 will be the critical year for the eurozone. Financial Times (The Lex Column): Securitisation: sound processes can play their part in removing risk from banks – that is ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The global economic crisis and South Africa Politicsweb Instead of serving, they are draining the economy. Solid investment (factories, infrastructure and so forth) has been steadily replaced with silly money (luxury consumerism, real estate bubbles, phoney financial instruments, everything on tick). ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Chavez's spending could boost Venezuela inflation The Associated Press In the 1990s, for instance, Venezuela's inflation rates topped 80 percent, though that was in the midst of a major financial crisis. Today's financial situation is different, however, and still the government hasn't been able to lower inflation below ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The Philippine central bank Philippine Star Some of the titles of the essays are as follows: “The macroeconomic perspective;” “Economic crises in the 1950s-1970s;” “The crises of confidence 1981-1987;” “The Asian financial crisis 1997-1998;” “Financial cooperation in East Asia;” and “Financial... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The Risks To The Global Financial System In 2012 Seeking Alpha Where the money will come from is not clear. None of the problems that could strain the global financial system originated in 2011. They have been building up for years and even decades. The first major blow up was the Credit Crisis in 2008. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Draghi risks German ire on top job Financial Times Wolfgang Schäuble, German finance minister, described Tuesday's decisions as “balanced”. A possibly riskier step would have been for Mr Draghi to have given theeconomics portfolio to Benoît Coeuré, former deputy head of the French Treasury, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Jim Sillavan on London 2012 and the eurozone crisis – cartoon The Guardian (blog) Ironic that those whose obsessive pursuit of gold are entirely to blame for the financial crisis. Well the Fat Cat haters will love this 'toon :) So does it represent the UK chasing after money as Cameron thinks the Olympics will boost the economy and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Gold confiscation- could it become a reality? Moneyweb.co.za There is increasing worry that The US and other governments may confiscate citizens' gold holdings and use them to help mitigate the Global Financial Crisis. Julian Phillips discusses. BENONI - Many of the leading fund managers in the US and elsewhere ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Echoes of 1930s in troubled West BusinessWorld Online Edition DYSFUNCTIONAL POLITICS threatens to deliver a protracted period of slow global growth, possibly lasting well beyond 2012, which will only deepen the political andeconomic problems for the West. The global financial crisis that began four years ago has ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Investors back away from Asia amid financial crisis, Japanese tsunami The Australian MANUFACTURING contracted in South Korea and Taiwan but grew in India, as the EUcrisis hit Asia's export economies. In contrast, the South-East Asian markets of Indonesia (up 2.8 per cent) and the Philippines (up 4.1 per cent) managed to finish the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Nigeria: We Need to Unlock the Agriculture Sector - Sanusi AllAfrica.com Exerpts: After two years of commencement of reforms in the banking sector, are there other areas of adjustment, refocus? After two years of focused attention with operators, the Nigerian financial crisis is on the final lap of resolution. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Hungary gov't set to tap and burn c.bank foreign currency reserves - source portfolio.hu Former finance minister László Békesi said using the reserves to finance economicpolicy goals could lead to a state of emergency. "Inflation would skyrocket, the forint's exchange rate would depreciate dramatically, further increasing the country risk ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Africa's battles with capital flight and unjust debt New Zimbabwe.com (blog) The total wealth of Africa's HNWIs peaked, according to this source, at $1 trillion in 2007 before slipping to $800 billion in 2008 as a result of the global financial crisis. The sickening reality for Africa is that the assets accumulated by means of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| What you'll need in 2012 MoneyWeek The European Central Bank gave the banks more than $600 billion. The bankers happily took the money. Stocks soared. Nobody seemed to know or care where the ECB got itsmoney. In the last quarter of the year, the public's interest shifted from finance ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Global Financial Market Turmoil Overshadows Biotech Successes in 2011 MarketWatch (press release) But while the industry finished the first half of the 2011 on pace for one of its biggest years of fundraising yet, global economic worries and political fights over government debt in Europe and the United States weighed heavily on financial markets ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Danes Balk as Debt Yields Turn Negative on Foreign Demand BusinessWeek Denmark is the Nordic region's weakest economy as the country grapples falling consumer spending caused by housing prices that have dropped to a six year-low and abanking crisis that has sapped lending. GDP shrank 0.5 percent in the third quarter and... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Occupy Wall Street Needs a Wall Street Education Huffington Post (blog) This is fundamental to the financial system and seems to be overlooked by those who deem corporations focusing on profits as "shady behavior". Wall Street firms provide many functions: The mortgage crisis was completely stupid -- all around. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| International financial news Ninemsn BEIJING - China's Premier Wen Jiabao has warned of a difficult start to the year, amid rising concerns over a potential sharp slowdown in the world's second largest economy. FRANKFURT, Jan 3 AFP - The European Central Bank has named executive board ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Suffolk Bancorp Appoints Howard C. Bluver as President, Chief Executive ... MarketWatch (press release) This is a financial-institution consulting firm serving the regulatory, transactional, risk management, corporate governance, due diligence and operational needs of the commercial banking, thrift, mortgage and investment banking sectors. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 'Efficient' Markets Have Learned Little From Recent History Seeking Alpha Perhaps most importantly, the presence of excessive degrees of leverage within a complex and interconnected financial system clearly was a central factor exacerbating the scope of the mortgage crisis, yet a dangerously high level of leverage remains ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Collateral Damage Jutia Group Martin Wolf put it trenchantly in the Financial Times: "The Earth cannot, after all, hope to run current account surpluses with the people of Mars." The lack of international cooperation to rebalance trade flows is a key reason for continued economic ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Stocks buoyant after strong US economic data Seattle Post Intelligencer As part of the country's second massive financial bailout, private creditors have been asked to forgive 50 percent of their Greek holdings, but many in the markets think that's not enough. There's speculation the so-called Greek haircut may have to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Danish Investors Balk as Debt Yields Turn Negative Amid Foreigners' Buying Bloomberg Denmark is the Nordic region's weakest economy as the country grapples falling consumer spending caused by housing prices that have dropped to a six year-low and abanking crisis that has sapped lending. GDP shrank 0.5 percent in the third quarter and... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Bridgewater Takes Grim View of 2012 Wall Street Journal In Europe, "the debt crisis is [a] long ways from over," he says. The economic and financial morass will mean interest rates in the US and Europe will essentially be locked at zero for years. Robert Prince of Bridgewater at the firm's campus in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Turkey Banks Climb Most Since November as Emerging Markets Gain BusinessWeek “If you buy anything in Turkey you have to go with the most liquid which is the financialsector. The Asian data overnight coupled with continued DA strength energized moneyflows to emerging market and risk assets.” The MSCI Emerging Markets ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Economy to Continue Painfully Slow Growth TheStreet.com US banks are vulnerable to a contagion. European economic powers -- in particular, Germany and France -- appear wholly disinclined toward forging a genuine fiscal union that could engage in continental taxation to finance essential functions of ... See all stories on this topic » |
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