 The Economist Central banks may be the last people standing, but they cannot produce better growth out of nowhere. The emerging markets which provided a cushion during the financial crisis look less helpful now, especially if they put up capital controls in the face ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Europe Crisis Won't Lead to Lehman-Style Meltdown, Magnus Says Bloomberg 11 (Bloomberg) -- George Magnus, a senior economic adviser at UBS Investment Bank, discusses European banks and the region's sovereign debt crisis. Magnus, speaking with Francine Lacqua on Bloomberg Television's "On the Move," also talks about monetary ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Dollar funding pressures heat up in FX swaps Reuters The temporary Thursday level was up 20 bps in a little more than a week and approaching a peak of 77 bps reached during the financial crisis. "Though we have tools like the Fed's swap lines and massive dollar deposits by some of these European banks ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Investors should take heed of lessons from 2008 market meltdown say experts Winnipeg Free Press He says investors who remained invested in a balanced portfolio of stocks, bonds and treasury bills throughout the last crisis into the recovery outperformed those who fled equities entirely to bonds. But investment author Gordon Pape doesn't quite see ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Crisis Lessons Learned, Commercial-Paper Market Skates Through Tumult Wall Street Journal Issuers also are more credit-worthy because the riskiest ones were driven out of business during thefinancial crisis, though investors still steer clear of lending to some European banks. Meanwhile, the remaining investors are less prone to panic, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bank of America Corporation Special Call Seeking Alpha However, if you think about it, the fundamentals are so much better in our country and in our company and in our industry than they were 4 years ago when last the financial crisis hit. There's a lot less leverage, whether it's for consumers' leverage, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Financial markets The Economist At least the central banks are having a positive effect, however temporary. Politicians, meanwhile, have left investors with serious doubts about their ability to handle the crisis. European leaders have moved from an initial stance of denial about the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Richard Boyd Barrett Press Release Socialist Worker In a statement, Richard Boyd Barrett TD for the People Before Profit Alliance, has said that the dramatic worsening of the global economic and financial crisis in recent days has demonstrated the abysmal failure of the policy of bailing-out banks and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| We're not Wilde about Obama vision Sydney Morning Herald While that statement may have been designed to lift spirits, it failed to lift the market, which ended Monday's session down 634.76 points, or 5.5 per cent - its biggest one-day fall since the global financial crisis in 2008. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Retirees: 6 Takeaways From the Recent Market Drop Morningstar.com The most recent market action, while not as violent or scary as the bear market that coincided with the financial crisis, nonetheless carries some takeaways for retired investors or those looking to hang up the workaday life within the next few years. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Economic turmoil means homebuyers will continue to benefit from lower lending ... Edmonton Journal And while no financial institutions have made a move yet, McKinley said the expectation is that rates will come down in the fallout from the cascade of economic developments that began with the European Union's sovereign debt crisis and includes ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bulls Unwind Bets In EM, But Instability Less A Risk This Time Wall Street Journal The Brazilian real was little changed Wednesday even as risk aversion stayed high in globalmarkets. As risk aversion rises, banks in many parts of the world and especially in Europe are paying more to raise dollars. And in past financial crises, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US stocks rise on unemployment claims report, Cisco outlook a day after Dow's ... Newser Worries that the continent's debt problems could hurt the banks that own European governmentbonds have weighed heavily on financial stocks and the broader market. Pain for European bankscould lead to more trouble for the US banking industry and the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Too Big To Fail? The US Debt Crisis And Its Implications - Analysis Eurasia Review The scenario of a financial domino effect worldwide is threatening to become reality. A crashing US economy would not only hurt other individual economies but also have implications for overall globalstability. The question is whether there will be ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Saudi urged to cut investment in US Emirates 24/7 In addition, recent concerns that Europe's debt crisis could spread to Italy, the Euro-zone's third-largest economy, accentuated fears of a vicious new global economic downturn, it added. The study noted that oil prices sank more than $10 a barrel last ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Grey clouds in Dookeran's 'blue skies' Trinidad News Noting that world financial markets have been further destabilised by the spread of the debt crisisfrom the peripheral countries of the Euro area to Italy and Spain, the Bank said, "These developments against the background of weakening growth in the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NBR Transcripts-August 10, 2011-Full Episode PBS Nightly Business Report BRIAN MOYNIHAN, CEO, BANK OF AMERICA: The fundamentals are so much better in our country, and in our company, and in our industry, than they were four years ago, when last thefinancial crisis hit. MILLER: Moynihan also tried to bolster confidence by ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 10-Q: TIAA REAL ESTATE ACCOUNT Middle East North Africa Financial Network Yet these positive indicators have not been sufficient to overcome larger global and domestic forces. Europe remains mired in a debt crisis, with lingering problems in Greece raising expectations of a default and increasing concerns about other ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Newspaper Briefing, including 'The coming world of smaller banks' - Financial ... Proactive Investors UK Investors worried about the outlook for the global economy dumped risky assets and snapped up UK gilts bonds or IOUs issued by the UK to raise money. Bupa warns of hospital beds crisis as age care sector suffers: Bupa warned the haemorrhage of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Post Newsletters & Alerts Washington Post (blog) In an ominous echo of 2008, European bank stocks on Wednesday fell 10 percent or more -- andbanks in Europe are beginning to hoard cash, crimping the interbank loans that keep the global financial system operating smoothly. While borrowing costs for ... See all stories on this topic » |
