Advanced economies at advantage in disaster recovery
Economic Times
Japan's earthquake is just the latest in a series of unwanted shocks for the world economy, which is still far from having shaken off the fallout of the 2008 global financial crisis. Political turmoil in North Africa has reduced oil supplies from Libya ...
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The world's bias towards debt is not in its interest
The National
If G20 governments stood back and asked themselves how to channel a much larger share of the imbalances into equity-like instruments, the global financial system that emerged just might be a lot more robust than the crisis-prone system that we have now ...
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Shaken but not rattled
Mid-Day
Libyan crisis, which was ignored for the time being, after the crisis in Japan, hit the headlines when the UN sanctioned a no fly zone over Libya. This has taken crude back to its high levels on Friday. Global economic data was a mixed bag. ...
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The next bubble: Follow the line of debt to spot a coming crisis
Financial Times
Only four years after the financial crisis first broke, the danger of complacency is already back. Analysts at Citi noted in early March how deep out-of-the-money equity options – which would make large amounts of money only if stock markets fell ...
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'Red Capitalism' Review: Evaluating China's Financial Foundation and ...
Seeking Alpha
It does not face the same crises as Mexico, Argentina, Greece and Spain. It does not borrow money from overseas, its currency is not freely convertible, and its banks do not face substantial foreign competitors. From the authors: Over the past 18 years ...
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Risk in the European periphery has diminished
FXstreet.com
A key source of uncertainty is the risk of a nuclear disaster, which has increased fears and generated volatility in financial markets (the Japanese stock market is down by 11% so far). The yen briefly surged to almost 76 yen per USD on Thursday as the ...
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VIX Rises Most in 10 Months Driving S&P 500 Down 1% in 20 Years of History
Bloomberg
Concern about losses tied to the Japan quake pushed options prices for Coach Inc. (COH), Aflac Inc. (AFL) and Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (HIG) to the highest levels in at least seven months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. ...
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Why is a Powerful Faux Liberal UK Think Tank Using a Tarnished Pol and ...
FavStocks
The total market capitalisation of the largest global banks is currently only around $1.2 trillion. Fully internalising the output costs of financial crises would risk putting banks on the same trajectory as the dinosaurs, with the levy playing the ...
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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Supreme Court Gives Fed 5 ...
By Michael Shedlock
As a financial crisis developed in 2007, “The Federal Reserve forgot that it is the central bank for the people of the United States and not a private academy where decisions of great importance may be withheld from public scrutiny,” said ... “The Fed must be accountable to Congress, especially in disclosing what it does with the people's money.” The Clearing House Association contended that Bloomberg is seeking an unprecedented disclosure that might dissuade banks from ...
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John Lothian Newsletter: March 21, 2011: LSE Turquoise platform to ...
By Ryan Lothian
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- The largest U.S. banks have grown larger since the financial crisis, and the number of “too-big-to- fail” banks will increase by 40 percent over the next 15 years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. .... Two big stock exchange mergers have been announced: he London Stock Exchange and TMX as well as NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Borse. The aims are to compete more effectively and deliver greater value to shareholders. Financial News asks some ...
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Shaken: 10 Economic Disasters Which Threaten To Rip World ...
By Michael
The global economy and world financial markets were really struggling to recover even when things were relatively stable. If all of this global instability gets even worse it could literally rip world financial markets apart. .... Most people simply do not realize how fragile the global economy is at this point. The financial crash of 2008 was a devastating blow. The next wave of the economic crisis could be even worse. So what will the rest of 2011 bring? ...
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STOCK MARKET WATCH, Monday, March 21, 2011 - Democratic Underground
The current corporate tax code encourages corporations to finance their investments with debt (e.g., by issuing bonds) rather than equity (e.g., by selling stock). This encourages corporations to rely excessively on debt, which, ... Insurance crises tend to occur when insurers act like banks (AIG Financial Products, MBIA and other monolines). Bank crises tend to occur when banks act like investment banks. Insurers must not underwrite risks that they will not be able to ...
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Ann Pettifor: If Japan Can Address Her Crises, Then the U.S. Can ...
By Ann Pettifor
The economic possibilities of nations don't depend on financial resources, but rather on human, technological and organizational power. The banking industry relies on these productive resources. The stability of banks hinges on lending ... Unemployment in peacetime, combined with risky and reckless investment, is imposed on nations by ignorance, greed and special interests. May the legacy of this appalling and destructive crisis in Japan be the abandonment of such faulty ...
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Pushing The Reset Button In Japan?
By Claus Vistesen
In the narrowness of my own world, the financial industry has a tendency to produce an extra amount of hyperbole in situations of geo-political tensions and /or natural disasters with unknown consequences. In some sense this is a reflection of one ... Yet, the long term consequences of the ongoing upheaval in North Africa and the Middle East as well as how Japan manages to rebound from the worst crisis for the country since the Second World War are important for investors. ...
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El-Erian (2): non-crisis issues that won't go away | beyondbrics ...
By beyondbrics
And remember, these costs and risks – or what at Pimco we have analysed as collateral damage and unintended consequences – have consequential economic, financial, and political elements that play out both domestically and abroad. ... To me it seems that the Irish government needs to print money, by one means or another, to fill the gap left by the toxic bank assets in Ireland. Do you agree? How could the Irish central bank do this in an imaginative way, considering the ...
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Quelle Surprise! Geithner Gutting Dodd Frank via Intent to Exempt ...
By Yves Smith
Some didn't have sufficient dollars because exports had fallen due to the global financial crisis or had sold more dollars than they actually were contracted to receive. As many as 50000 companies in at least 12 countries including Korea, ... 2005 Corporate bonds on GM and Ford are lowered to junk status. ————-. The Mexican crisis seemed to be largely about covering US banks from peso currency swaps which went bad. The Asia crisis was handled by the IMF and World Bank ...
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What is Europe doing about the debt crisis? | Investing ...
Euro zone leaders have agreed that the level of private debt for banks, households and non-financial firms will be closely monitored in regular stress tests coordinated at the EU level. The EU is conducting a new round of bank stress ...
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Citigroup Dividend: Citi to Resume Dividend, Sets Reverse Split - CNBC
The third-largest U.S. bank largely finished extricating itself from U.S. government ownership in December after taking $45 billion in bailout aid during the financial crisis. The bank reported a full-year profit for 2010, ...
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The Fed Feels So Good
There is in fact not much that central bankers can do to regain the trust they have lost from the long, grinding financial crisis of the past three years. Conclusion: The Bloomberg article wants us to believe that employment is rising, inflation is better than deflation and the .... Of course Bloomberg, Bernake and the central bankers will think this the greatest thing since sliced bread, and how wonderful that the stock market is making all them more money than before-- ...
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Australian Bonds at 3 yr Low | Live Stock Trading News | Equities ...
By Shayne Heffernan
Relative yields on Australian Bonds at 3 yr low boost bank bond buyback. Australia's banks are buying back bonds sold with a government guarantee during the credit crisis as relative yields on their debt fall to a 3 yr low, the cheapest compared ... Australian Dollar financial debt is the cheapest relative to Global bank bonds since June after spreads narrowed 37 basis points this year to the lowest since January 2008, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes. ...
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Markets News Monday: Swiss Re says cost of Japan quake claims ...
Irish/Ireland Business News, Internationa, Global, World, European Union, Financial Information - Irish Finance and Business Portal - providing Irish, European and global market information including mortgages, pensions, investment , ... Economic View: Pivotal two weeks in store; Goodbody chief economist, Dermot O'Leary, comments -- "European leaders started 2011 with a greater sense of urgency to solve the problems of the sovereign crisis in the bloc after a series of ...
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Japanese Yen: G7 Intervention vs Laissez-faire :: The Market ...
With the unprecedented liquidity injection in aftermath of the quake, tsunami, nuclear crisis, combined with existing high debt levels, you would think the Japanese yen currency should weaken considerably, if not in a complete short- term panic landslide. Yet quite the contrary, ... And the two charts (above and below) from Financial Times illustrates that efforts from the 'G7 joint task force' sent yen tumbling to around Y81, along with a calmer global equity markets. ...
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Mind-Boggling Political Cowardice! - Money and Markets
By Martin D. Weiss Ph.D.
When the most powerful central banks on the planet band together with huge amounts of money to intervene in global currency markets, you'd think they would at least get some bang for their big bucks. ... Dr. Weiss began his career in 1971 when he founded Weiss Research, dedicated to evaluating the safety of financial institutions and investments for consulting clients. He is the publisher and contributing editor of the financial newsletter, Safe Money, known for its track ...
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Stock Market: Could We Get Back to 10 Percent Returns? - CBS ...
By Carla Fried
That's about double the “new normal” returns we were told to prepare for in the wake of the financial crisis. And the nation's largest public pension, CalPERs, recently announced it is sticking to a robust 7.75 percent assumed overall portfolio rate of return. ... It makes a case that strong corporate profitability can fuel stock market returns in the coming decade that are in line with long-term historical trends, even without strong economic growth. ...
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NEW: Why Stocks Are REALLY Rising Today...
By Swing Trader
Financials strengthened after the U.S. Treasury Department said it plans to start selling off the $142 billion portfolio of agency-guaranteed mortgage- backed securities it purchased during the financial crisis. ...
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Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's ...
By Jacob Wolinsky
“…minority international investors acquired stock [in Chinese banks] that varies in value in line with market movements. This gives the impression of value creation on their portfolios, but these movements are, in fact, ... It does not face the same crises as Mexico, Argentina, Greece and Spain. It does not borrow money from overseas, its currency is not freely convertible, and its banks do not face substantial foreign competitors. From the authors: ...
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Bank of Japan
However, global financial markets seem to be aware of the potential risk that expansion ..... Note: Simple average of 3-month return on government bonds and stock .... After the outbreak of the financial crisis, however, the effectiveness of .... facilitating its money market operations, the Bank decided to accept, ...
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Japan crisis puts world financial markets on edge - NDTV Profit
Fears over the escalating nuclear crisis in Japan overtook financial markets ... markets around the globe Tuesday, pushing stocks and other investments lower. ... of fear that the disaster in Japan would slow down the global economy. ... Government bonds and other assets considered safer investments rose in price. ...
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5th UPDATE: G-7 Pledges Rare Joint FX Intervention As Crisis ...
NASDAQ News: 5th UPDATE: G-7 Pledges Rare Joint FX Intervention As Crisis ... -- Other G-7 central banks will intervene during their trading days ... after a 90- minute teleconference of G-7 finance ministers and central bankers. ... who expected the yen to weaken at a time of severe crisis for the Japanese economy, ...
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Yen surges and global stocks fall as Japan crisis deepens ...
Japanese stocks had suffered their biggest two-day rout since the 1987 crash on Monday and ... Benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond futures rose 0.24 point to 139.96, ... Update: U.S. officials “alarmed” by Japan's handling of crisis ... provides the latest business and finance news at Townhall Finance. ...
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The Truth About Hedge Funds and the Financial Crisis - Reason ...
In the case of investment banks, this means that for every dollar ... Fact 2: Not only did hedge funds not precipitate the financial crisis, ... public equities and bonds over time, including during the financial crisis. ... Crisis” shows, hedge funds have systematically outperformed the stock market in downturns. ...
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Interest Rate Trends Impact on the Dow and FTSE Stock Market ...
Japan Quake Shakes U.S. Treasury Bond Market Get Ready for Financial ... Excellent Investment Opportunities In Nuclear And Uranium Stocks - 19th Mar 11 ... Japan Nuclear Crisis Illustrates Global Crisis in Leadership - 17th Mar 11 ... economic activity whereas central banks are nearly always acting behind the curve ...
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JPMorgan, others boost payouts after Fed tests: Fidelity - News
Banks are still recovering from the financial crisis, and the Federal Reserve has ... Buying back the preferred stock will allow it to boost the dividend on its ... own analyses of whether they could withstand adverse economic conditions . ... "That's very good," said Marshall Front, chairman and chief investment ...
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