 OpEdNews This means that it's already taken a tremendous amount of new money to keep ourfinancial system from collapsing. Yet despite this huge sum being pumped into thebanking system, once again the banks are still regarded as weak and troubled. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| G20's FSB targets insurers, domestic banks Reuters The FSB is the regulatory task force of the world's group of top 20 economies (G20) and is charged with implementing pledges to reform banks and markets after thefinancial crisis. It has already completed work on new capital and liquidity rules from... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fed Returns $77 Billion in Profits to Treasury New York Times Through those purchases, the central bank has become the largest single holder of federal debt, and of securities issued by the government-owned mortgage financecompanies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. As a consequence, most of the moneyflowing into the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Carmen Reinhart and financial repression The Economist (blog) In Britain, the inflation target has been repeatedly missed while rates have been held at 0.5% because the Bank of England has decided (probably correctly) that the economy and financial system are too fragile to withstand higher rates. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Hungary's IMF negotiator to start talks Sky News Australia Hungary avoided bankruptcy in 2008 at the height of the global financial crisis thanks to a E20 billion ($A25.03 billion) bailout from the European Union, the IMF and the World Bank. After Orban came to power in May 2010 he quickly turned his back on ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Turkish experts say euro crisis likely to deepen, spread in 2012 Today's Zaman The coming months will be decisive in determining whether European leaders can hold their increasingly fragile currency bloc together, or stumble in the face of a daunting set of political, economic and financial obstacles lined up in their path at the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Agency predicts January downgrades for Europe CBS News France's rating faces stress from the exposure of its banks to the European debt crisisand its position as a major contributor to Europe's bailout fund, the European FinancialStability Facility, Riley said. He noted that the country has to constantly ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Analysts: ECB likely to hold rates steady The Associated Press That means buying financial assets across the eurozone as a way of pushing newly created money into the economy and promoting growth. It is an additional tool that central banks can use when interest rates are about as low as they can go. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| RBS Pay and Bonuses, Newedge USA Fined, Hildebrand Quits, PLDT: Compliance Bloomberg Criticism of the profession came to the fore after the 2010 release of “Inside Job,” an Academy Award-winning documentary about the financial crisis that features economists being interviewed about their links to the financial industry. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Gambia: Fused in Finance AllAfrica.com Few people know this, but there's a process through which banks and trading houses are leveraging your money to increase their profits - just like they did in the run-up to the last financial crisis. Only this time, things may be worse, as hard as that ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| QNB Last Credible Buyer for Denizbank as Bank Sales Founder BusinessWeek The agency has given the region's lenders until June 30 to increase core Tier 1 capital, a measure of banks' financial resilience, to 9 percent as a buffer against the sovereign-debt crisis. The EBA set a Jan. 20 deadline for banks to submit ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Australia's biggest economic threat is China MarketWatch WSJ 'Money & Investing' editor Francesco Guerrera joins Mean Street to discuss. Photo: AP. The global financial crisis also boosted investment in commodities. As traditional investments fared poorly (stocks, interest rates and property prices all fell) ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Europe Crisis Wipes Out Covered Bond Savings: Australia Credit BusinessWeek “While access to wholesale funding markets in the 2012 financial year has commenced with better momentum, funding costs for new issuance remain very elevated,” Rick Moscati, ANZ's group treasurer, said by e-mail. The bank's covered bond sale provides ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Hungary: The newest problem for the eurozone MindfulMoney The original talks with the IMF and EU broke down in December over concerns on new laws that hurt the independence of Hungary's central bank and Fitch commented on the Hungarian government's 'unorthadox' economic policies. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Quit Fooling Around And End The 'Great Recession' Seeking Alpha And many hundreds of billions of “stimulus” and "rescue" dollars have been authorized for the relief of a few banks and financial industry giants represented by a handful of powerful lobbyists and cronies. It all started when the housing market crashed ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| How China and India are developing their financial markets San Francisco Luxury News AFP / PAL PILLAI global economy, China is still very far indeed from Western countries in the financial system. Similarly for India, which seeks to make grow flows of new money in s to foreign investors. “delay” due to a choice quite similar for the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Financial Repression Resource Investor Instead, our systemic and economic problems are leading to yet more deterioration in government finances. No amount of financial repression can fix that. Alasdair Macleod runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Troika begin two-strand mission to Dublin RTE.ie Officials from the IMF, European Central Bank and European Commission have begun the fifth review of the loan programme to Ireland. The development comes as scrutiny of the euro zone crisis will intensify over the coming days with a series of key bond ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Capitalism in Crisis: The Code That Forms a Bar to Harmony truthout Efforts to re-regulate the banking system, meantime, have failed to convince many experts that an even larger financial crisis can be avoided. If Hyman Minsky, the expert on financial market fragility, provided the best route map for understanding ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Where's the Money? Asset Allocation a Pension Challenge for 2012 MarketWatch (press release) With pension reform in the air, funding relief in 2012 may be easier sought in the legislatures than in financial returns. Towers Watson's 31st Annual Canadian Survey ofEconomic Expectations provides forecasts from leading business economists, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US Stocks Advance to Five-Month High Amid China Easing Bets BusinessWeek All 10 groups in the S&P 500 advanced as commodity, financial and industrial shares had the biggest gains. Bank of America Corp. and Caterpillar Inc. added at least 2.5 percent. The Dow Jones Transportation Average jumped 1.3 percent. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Money Trail Triggered Real Estate Collapse Housing Predictor Despite the moribund economy, financial industries are enjoying relatively little new regulation and they are pouring money into election campaigns. Follow the money trail and you find Wall Street is wooing candidates and bankrolling their campaigns, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Ex-Bank of America Deal Maker Sets Up in Indonesia Wall Street Journal (blog) But the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s has also left a residue of unsavory views of foreign investors. “After 1998, any investment vehicle in Indonesia must overcome a stigma of hot money,” said Mr. Holm, who has also previously worked at ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Analysis: Window may be opening for China to widen yuan band Reuters Beijing's sensitivity to external conditions was clear in mid-2008 when it effectively re-tied the yuan to the dollar as the global financial crisis menaced China's economy. But as once rampant speculation about a move to widen the yuan's trading band ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Odds of a 600 to 1000-Point Surge in DJIA Improving Equities.com The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF): created by eurozone members to safeguard financial stability in Europe. Authority includes loans to countries in need, intervention in primary and secondary markets pursuant to ECB analysis, finance ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Visions for a healthier West Bank economy Gant Daily Economists and businessmen warn that the PA's dependency on aid and vulnerability to external shocks could lead the entire West Bank economy to collapse, provoking a humanitarian crisis. Among the most vulnerable are the owners of small businesses and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Secondary Sources: Economic Confidence Up, Coin Demand, Insourcing Wall Street Journal (blog) “You can also find what looks like good news for the US economy in the Mint's report — demand for quarter, dimes, nickels, and pennies was up this year. During thefinancial crisis, demand had plunged. “People went into their piggy banks and their ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| What's the Deal with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? And How Can It ... Learnvest Living (blog) In a blog post, the new director said, “Most of the nonbank financial companies had no regular federal oversight in the run up to the financial crisis. They led a race to the bottom that pushed aside responsible businesses, including community banks ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| People Want More Coins, That's A Good Sign For The Economy NPR (blog) You can also find what looks like good news for the US economy in the Mint's report — demand for quarter, dimes, nickels, and pennies was up this year. During thefinancial crisis, demand had plunged. "People went into their piggy banks and theircoin ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| So how much is more than ever? Palm Beach Daily News (blog) According to a September study by The Clearing House Association, our financialinstitutions have come out of the global financial crisis with over $1.5 trillion in capital—- the highest capital level in history. But it's bad news, too. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Huntsman: 'I Will Break Up The Big Banks' ThinkProgress By Pat Garofalo on Jan 9, 2012 at 4:30 pm Across the board, the GOP's 2012 presidential candidates have denounced the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, enacted to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. However, none of them has come up with a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Trading Deck MarketWatch (blog) Just as the economy shows echoes of the financial crisis while income inequality grows, Chicago has echoes of financial crises of the past still visible in the old Continental Illinois Bank headquarters alongside the glitz and glamor of the Gold Coast... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fed reports payment of $76.9 billion to government Sacramento Bee The Fed began buying Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities during the recession and 2008 financial crisis to try to lower long-term interest rates. Fed officials say such unconventional efforts are necessary until economic growth becomes ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Turkey - Factors to Watch on Jan 10 Reuters GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares and the euro rose on Tuesday, but concerns over funding of euro zone sovereigns ahead of key auctions this week and of the debt crisisspilling into the wider financial system kept investors cautious about taking riskier ... See all stories on this topic » |
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