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Oct 20, 2011

FRANCE Ski, Snow, Resorts News, Oct 20, 2011


Ski champ Donna Weinbrecht teaches her tricks at Killington
Seven Days
After teaching herself how to ski bumps on the vast mogul fields of Killington's brutal Outer Limits trail, Weinbrecht went on to win Olympic gold — the first ever given for freestyle skiing — at the 1992 games in Albertville, France. ...
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Seven Days
2012 Tour de France route officially presented
Cyclingnews.com
A first test day for the climbers and GC contenders will come on stage seven, when the Tour hits the medium mountain range of the Vosges in Eastern France and its ski station La Planche des Belles Filles at 1148m of altitude. This first summit finish ...
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Win a Grand Massif 6 day ski pass!
Ski Club of Great Britain
Located in France's Haute Savoie region, the Grand Massif combines skiing andsnowboarding for all standards with entertainment, restaurants and shops all set in delightful alpine surroundings. The Grand Massif ski area is the 4th biggest ski area in...
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Ski Club of Great Britain
L'Oreal heiress threatens to leave France over guardianship
AFP
When asked if she would emigrate to Switzerland, she replied: "No, I no longer ski a lot." In the latest twist to a very public family feud inside one of France's richest families, Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers has once again asked the court to place ...
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AFP
Nontraditional movie awards, part 2
ESPN
Over the two years it took to film this project, Morrison traveled from South America to Chamonix,France, for his first real foray into ski mountaineering. "Until my time in Chamonix, I'd never done the kind of skiing that requires climbing with ice ...
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Provence Alpes Côtes d'Azur: A walk in the wilderness
The Independent
But instead of the purpose-built jungles of French ski resorts such as Tignes, La Plagne and Val d'Isère, here you also have pretty alpine chalets. Nevertheless, these are real, rural working villages that just happen to have a few downhill slopes and ...
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Group wants say in Olympic qualification process
USA Today
By Julian Finney, Getty Images Chas Guldemond of the USA in action in the Snowboard Slopestyle during the Winter X Games Europe on March 11, 2010 in Tignes, France. Members of the Ticket To Ride World Snowboard Tour (TTR) met with International Ski ...
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USA Today
Jason French of Ned Ludd on the Beauty of Limitations
Eater National
This was about 1993/95, when the ski valley had lots of great chefs that had come from Europe. I was looking to get classically trained, especially since I was reading things like Wine Spectator, which was really hip on the European three-stars. ...
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Eater National
The flip side of learning to ski
Metrosnow.co.uk
Regular readers will remember our blogger Jon as he learnt to ski, first at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempsted and then on the slopes of Champagny en Vanoise, France. Jon learnt to ski because he wanted to share in one of his girlfriend's favourite ...
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Metrosnow.co.uk
Cross Country Skier Nordic News
Cross Country Skier
The 2012 season is centered around the International Ski Federation World Cup, which begins Nov. 19 in Norway. A highlight of the season includes the Tour de Ski, a multi-stage tour, modeled around the Tour de France, beginning Dec. ...
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Cross Country Skier
World Jet Ski Championships - British Jet Skier takes two titles
Power Boat - World
Leading the way was the United States with 14, followed by Kuwait with eight, Estonia, Great Britain, Portugal, Serbia and Sweden (three each) along with France, Thailand and United Arab Emirates (two each). by Emma Slater Share 12:29 PM Tue 18 Oct ...
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Power Boat - World
Heavy discounts threaten ski specialists
TravelMole
Some ski operators had switched departure dates in a bid to avoid the problem but many, including Crystal and Inghams, are now discounting by as much as 40%. Resorts that traditionally fly on Saturday have been affected like France, ...
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Joe Ray wins team and individual titles in world waterskiing championships
Randolph Leader
USA Water Ski has selected Randolph County native Joe Ray of Wilsonville, Ala. and Jessica Radmilovic of Pine Grove, Calif. as its Male Athlete of the Month and Female Athlete of the Month, respectively, for August. Ray and Radmilovic led the US ...
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Why we love (and hate) France
Stuff.co.nz
LA BELLE: The French are famous for the their glamorous women - such as actress Marion Cotillard. LONG LUNCH: The French make great wines and they're not afraid to drink them either. CHAMONIX: France has some of the best ski resorts in the world....
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Stuff.co.nz
French Alps property 'a target for Swiss buyers'
Overseas Property and Investment News
Last month, the Knight Frank Ski Index showed that many of the French resorts have seen real estate values rise over the year to June 2011. Among the best-performingFrench ski destinations in terms of sales activity are Megeve, Courcheval and Val ...
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Overseas Property and Investment News
Mayon Trail Run 2011 offers scenic running adventure
Philippine Information Agency
by Albay Tourism Office LEGAZPI CITY, October 18 (PIA) -- If Japan, Wyoming, France, and other European countries have a ski run that would give you an “icy” experience, the Province of Albay boasts a run that will take you to one of the most scenic ...
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Our people: Rising to the top
Portales News-Tribune
I'd hike to hike and ski in the Alps and to see France and Italy and my family's origins in Germany. After a long, hard day, I love to… play with my children. One movie I could watch over and over again is… Planes, Trains and Automobiles for Steve ...
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France funds the development of Mestia ski resort in Georgia
Georgia Today (subscription)
The French government will allocate Euro 18 million in long-term loans and Euro 700 thousand in the form of a grant for the development of the infrastructure of Mestia ski resort, in the high mountainous region of Svaneti, located in the Caucasus ...
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Cycling: 2012 Tour route favours Wiggins and Froome
The Independent
Schleck's and the other climbers' best chance to shine comes on the daunting stage 11, featuring just 15 km of flat racing and four major Alpine cols culminating in a shallow but steady ascent to La Toussuire ski station. ...
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Etape du Tour routes announced in Alps and Pyrenees
RoadCyclingUK
The Etape, a sportive run over the same route as a stage of the Tour de France, was expanded to two dates in 2011 to cater for the popularity of the event. Act I (stage 11) in the Alps will take place on 8 July 2012, covering a 140km route from ...
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RoadCyclingUK
Josh Firman is jet-set for glory
Haverhill Echo
The 17-year-old competed at the IFWA World Championships in France in May, finishing ninth out of 22 on his debut, and now aspires to becoming the world's top jet-ski trickster. To become world champion would require coming out top of three rounds of ...
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Haverhill Echo
Glitzy launch in Milan for 2012 Giro d'Italia route
road.cc
Other highlights of what promises to be a thrilling final week in the mountains includes a stage finish at the ever-chic ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Dolomites on Stage 17, while the race comes to a finish, as it did this year, ...
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New GPS tracking device debuts at Herald Sun Tour
Cyclingnews.com
Adapted from a real-time tracking device used in North American and European ski schools, flaik, the company which owns the device, is now looking at further developing the product specifically for road cycling with a signal beamed off a satellite ...
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Sunday Cinema presents 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams'
BCLocalNews
Winter is Coming, it's time for the bears to get their dens ready for winter, and for ski and snowshoe people to get their lunch huts ready. If you would like to be part of the world-renowned Nancy Green Summit Hut Crew this fall, contact Les Carter, ...
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Creative advertisements deliver business results
Livemint
And that is one of the things about England at the moment—they have got real depth. But I am also into scuba diving and skiing. I went skiing to Bulgaria this year. We go to France, Italy, Sweden, Romania and Sweden to ski.
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The Daily Docket: Judge Rejects Call for Solyndra Trustee
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The owners of a ski resort near Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while they try to resolve financial difficulties related to another business, the Baltimore Sun reports.
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St Catherine skier's world tilt
Stonnington Leader
... slopes after being selected in the Australian Junior Ski Team. Ysabel Cronin-Guss was one of only nine Australian skiers selected for the alpine event. Ysabel will travel to Europe this summer to compete in France, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. ...
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Stonnington Leader
Greek protest against budget cuts turns violent
Los Angeles Times
Bands of black-clad youths — some wearing gas masks, others ski goggles — charged into the marching crowds, hurling Molotov cocktails at heavily armed riot police. Self-styled anarchists took crowbars to nearby banks, shop windows and luxury hotels. ...
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Los Angeles Times
The Cougar's Growl
Carman Valley Leader
By Amanda McGill, For The Valley Leader Twenty-eight cross country runners participated in the Zone 4 championships at Ski Birch on Oct. 12. The Junior Varsity boys brought home the banner for the first time since 2004. The Senior Varsity girls also ...
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Apple's iPhone 4S Hits Stores
Wall Street Journal
Kenta Kanazawa, 26, who was waiting in line, came from Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, where he works at a hotel owned by his parents at a major ski resort. "This will be my very first iPhone," said Mr. Kanazawa. "Getting the iPhone 4S isn't like ...
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Two years to make a difference - tributes to Southam man who never let Motor ...
Leamington Spa Today
Maxine said Simon managed to complete half of the list, visiting Ayers Rock in Australia, travelling to South Africa, swimming with sharks and skiing at the Val d'Isere resort in France. Hundreds of people from around the world have supported the cause...
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Leamington Spa Today
Aspen Skiing Co. hopes for X Games extension
Aspen Times
France's Xavier Bertoni spots his landing in January during Winter X ski superpipe practice at Buttermilk. ASPEN — The Aspen Skiing Co. hasn't reached an agreement yet to keep the Winter X Games at Buttermilk beyond this winter, but the company's ...
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Ask Lonely Planet: The best of India
New Zealand Herald
My partner and I would like to work at a chalet in France during the ski/snowboard season. Could you give us any tips? Would we need to be fluent French speakers or can we get away with knowing the basics and picking up the rest while we are there? ...
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Skiing Holidays In France - Refreshing And Rejuvenating
Article from Base Articles and entitled Skiing Holidays In France - Refreshing And Rejuvenating - By Roky Kemron.
Base Articles
Tignes - Village Montana - France - Ski Chat
Tignes - Village Montana, discussing Tignes in the France Forum.
www.j2ski.com/ski-chat-forum/posts/preList/.../94906.page
Arâches, Rhone-Alpes, France - Ski Resorts | Facebook
Arâches, Rhone-Alpes, FranceSki Resorts ... Ski Resorts in Nearby Cities. Morzine Ski Resorts ...1 near Morillon. Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Ski Resorts ...
www.facebook.com/pages/Arâches.../115897948425386?...
FRANCE WINTER SPORTS SKI - Image Globe - Editorial
Image Globe offers original, relevant and high quality editorial content : news, breaking news, sports, entertainment, celebrity images, paparazzi, historical and ...
www.imageglobe.be/editorial/coverage/3362331
France Ski Vacation For Family Ski Holidays
Is your best family ski resort in France? A review of France ski vacation favourites, travel options and ideas for snow-sure ski resorts.
www.family-ski-guide.com/france-ski-vacation.html
Ski Resorts in France,Adventure and Recreation in France
AsiaRooms.com offers information on Ski Resorts in France.
www.asiarooms.com/en/...in.../ski-resorts-in-france.html
Les Deux Alpes in France - Ski & Snowboard Holiday Deals
Book a ski and snowboard holiday deal to Les Deux Alpes in France or call for any other ski and snowboard holiday deals and bargains or holidays.
www.kwiktraveldeals.co.uk/.../les-deux-alpes-france-ski-and-s...
Hotel Avenue Lodge, Val d'Isere | France Ski Offers, Discounts ...
Contemporary and sophisticated, the Hotel Avenue Lodge is set in the heart of Val d'Isere and only 150 meters from the slopes. Close to numerous shops, bars ...
www.ski-i.com/ski-holiday.../hotel-avenue-lodge-val-d-isere
Ski Holiday to Flaine Apartments, Flaine, France | takemeskiing.co.uk
Book a Ski Holiday to Flaine Apartments, Flaine, France with takemeskiing.co.uk. Skiing Holidays to Flaine Apartments in Flaine, ski deals to Flaine Apartments.
www.takemeskiing.co.uk/ski-holiday-flaine-apartments-flaine-...
Lock system with VERSO CLIQ from Vachette secures French ski ...
Lock and security news: Popular winter sports village Métabief will install Vachette's VERSO CLIQ mechatronic lock system in their municipal buildinfs. Vachette ...
www.assaabloy.com/.../VERSO-CLIQ-secures-Metabief-ski-res...
Top 10 European Ski Resorts
When the word “skiing” is mentioned, most people will think about famous ski destinations such as the French Alps and Aspen. However, skiers and travelers ...
john.articlealley.com/top-10-european-ski-resorts-2370845.html
Hotel Turquoise, Belle Plagne | La Plagne France | Crystal Ski
For both further details and bookings for your stay at the Hotel Turquoise, Belle Plagne in La Plagne, visit Crystal Ski where you can book your next ski holiday ...
www.crystalski.co.uk/ski...ski.../hotel-turquoise-belle-plagne/
The mountains, the art of living well | Ski in France : Official Website ...
Mountain resorts are not only centres for winter sports, limited to the slopes. They are also ideal places for a holiday under the open sky, where one can breathe, ...
en.france-montagnes.com/.../the-mountains-the-art-of-living-...
Chaudanne & Eterlou Apartments Méribel - France - Ski Holidays ...
Chaudanne & Eterlou Apartments in Méribel, France. Stay at the Chaudanne & Eterlou Apartments With Inghams. The Ski & Snowboarding Holiday Experts!
www.inghams.co.uk/ski-holidays/hotels/.../chaudanne-eterlou/
Hotel Piolet | Les Menuires France | Thomson Ski
Stay at the Hotel Piolet for the ideal base to explore the slopes. Make your ski holiday complete with the perfect place to stay.
www.thomsonski.co.uk/ski-resorts/france-ski.../hotel-piolet/
Luxury Ski, Chalet Holiday in France Alps: Place for fun, relaxing.
Book your luxury ski, chalet holiday in France with Rentalps.com. Luxury Chalets in France are perfectly suited for holiday with friends & family. Book Now.
www.rentalps.com/luxury-chalet-france.php
Morillon Ski Chalet (Self Catered) to Rent | Chalet La Valentine ...
Chalet la Valentine is a traditional wooden savoyard chalet in the French Alps. There are 4 comfortable bedrooms, 2 new bathrooms, and a fully fitted and very ...
www.skipad.co.uk/chalet-la-valentine-morillon-france/l1033

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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Oct 20, 2011


Blame the Fed for the Financial Crisis
Wall Street Journal
The Federal Reserve has caused every single boom and bust that has occurred in this country since the bank's creation in 1913. It pumps new money into the financial system to lower interest rates and spur the economy. Adding new money increases the ...
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Gordon Brown Argues For Global Growth Pact, International Financial Standards
Huffington Post
In Brown's view, world leaders never fully addressed the underlying fundamentals of the financial crisis and are now facing the same persistent problems -- too many banks with too little cash on hand and a lack of knowledge about where money is flowing ...
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Dexia: the end of a crisis or the beginning?
Washington Post
BRUSSELS — The collapse of Dexia Bank has been rationalized by European and bank officials as a last act of the 2008 financial crisis, a slow-bleeding casualty whose complicated structure and investment portfolio couldn't be rearranged effectively ...
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GAO: Executives' seats on Fed boards as firms benefit give appearance of conflict
Washington Post
Top executives from Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, General Electric and other firms sat on the boards of regional Federal Reserve banks while their firms benefited from the central bank's policies during the financial crisis, creating an appearance of ...
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Britain can't save Europe, but we might still save ourselves
Telegraph.co.uk
A case study in financial engineering, it won't address the fault lines at the heart of the single currency crisis – namely, the widely divergent competitiveness between north and south, and the connected stand‑off between debtor nations that have ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Banking System in Crisis: "Economic Collapse Part 2" Ahead?
Elliott Wave
You can find them in the updated, 2nd edition of the book which foretold the financial crisis: Conquer the Crash. What does Prechter say about the near-term future? For starters, he observes that the "banking system [is] still in crisis. ...
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Fed's Rosengren Says Global Bank 'Vulnerabilities' Must Be Fixed
BusinessWeek
“It is apparent that the financial intermediaries encompass some vulnerabilities for the worldfinancial system and the global economy.” Spanish, Italian and Greek bonds fell yesterday on concern that the euro region is struggling to contain a crisis ...
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A Shot of Money
Slate Magazine
And conventional analyses of the financial crisis focus on the weak capital base of many banks, which left them with insufficient reserves to absorb the losses they incurred when asset prices fell sharply in 2007 and 2008. Taxpayers, notably in the ...
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Slate Magazine
Europe needs the ECB to step up to the plate
Financial Times
When these financial institutions sell government bonds they are in search of a safe asset, and this is primarily central bank money. That money is hoarded and is not used to expand credit and themoney supply, and so does not lead to inflationary ...
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Pranab on how global crisis is affecting Indian economy
NDTV.com
I propose to present a bird's eye view of the economic situation in the country and then sit back and listen to your views and answer any questions that you may have. 4. In 2007-08 India's GDP grew by 9.3%. Due to the global financial crisis our growth ...
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Bernanke To Communicate Better With The Public
NPR
They'd like to do away with the Fed, do away with paper money and go back to the gold standard. And some other people think the Fed is simply not being tough enough on the big banks that after all caused the financial crisis that we're still suffering ...
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Sarkozy flies in for emergency euro talks to cement rescue deal
The Guardian
As around 100000 Greeks staged violent protests in Athens at the austerity measures being imposed to prevent their country sliding into bankruptcy, Sarkozy underlined the scale of the crisis by flying straight to Germany's financial capital rather than ...
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The Guardian
U.S. regional banks get boost from business loans
Reuters
During a conference call with analysts, US Bancorp Chief Executive Richard Davis said the bank is adding larger corporate customers that borrowed from international banksbefore the financial crisis. He said commercial credit line use remains low, ...
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Reuters
EU summit to decide on eurozone crisis
The Bostwana Gazette
As the protests demonstrate this weekend, there is no appetite for public money being used to rescue the banks yet again.” Another area under discussion in Paris has been whether to strengthen the IMF. Developing countries want to boost it, ...
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Rebalancing the global economy
BusinessDay
Before now,UK had enjoyed about 25% of American Financial institutions money market Deposits. It is important to mention that reflationary efforts in the economy must reach to the primary consumers and not sit in vaults of banks,who now speculate with ...
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House price hit yet to come
Business Spectator
The business sector debt was about a 125 per cent of GDP I think when the crisis began. The rest was household and a trivial amount of debt, believe it or not, was actually owed by the non-bank financial sector, the shadow banking sector as we call it ...
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Leaders in Europe Take Time From a Farewell to Negotiate a Bailout Deal
New York Times
Numerous open questions remained, including how to increase the financial clout of the European bailout fund and find money to recapitalize weaker banks. “In Germany, the coalition is divided on this issue. It is not just Angela Merkel who we need to ...
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New York Times
Nordea Rules Out Recapitalization as European Issue Glut Looms
BusinessWeek
Still, Finance Minister Anders Borg signaled yesterday he may be backing down from the target as the threat of a European banking crisis stresses financial markets. “We want to eventually continue to gradually sharpen demands on Swedish banks both when ...
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European Stocks Unattractive Until Crisis Solved, BlackRock Says
BusinessWeek
Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors concluded talks last weekend in Paris by endorsing parts of an emerging European plan to avoid a Greek default, bolster banks and curb contagion. The proposals, which have yet to be made public, ...
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September Losers Now Best Junk Bonds in the World: China Credit
BusinessWeek
The People's Bank of China has injected cash into the financial system every week for the past three months to help ease the cash shortage, pumping in a total 565 billion yuan ($89 billion). The seven-day repurchase rate, a gauge of interbank funding ...
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First half of 2012: Decimation of Western banks
Global Economic Intersection (blog)
Any global banking crisis (as any major bank event), therefore, begins and ends in these two cities since the modern global financial system is a vast process of incessant wealth recycling (virtual or real) developed by and for these two cities (14). ...
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Global Economic Intersection (blog)
Money $marts: Pointing the finger at the wrong villains
Naples Daily News
Enough time has passed since the economic downturn for comprehensive research to uncover and identify the causal factors of the recession. Forget the president's mandated Financial CrisisCommittee's formal report on causes. ...
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Fulton Financial Corp. posts higher profits as loan losses decline
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
Fulton Financial earnings improved as it reserved less to cover loan losses, an expense that hurt the bottom line of many banks when the credit crisis began in 2008. As loan defaults rose, banks reserved more money to cover those losses....
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The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
Huntsman's Copycat Wall Street Reform
The Atlantic
Others might argue that the size of banks weren't the problem but that the interconnected nature of the modern financial industry makes it susceptible to crisesanytime too much correlated risk builds up in the system. But if Huntsman identifies with ...
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The Atlantic
Asian Stocks Rise as U.S. Earnings Spur Global Recovery Outlook
San Francisco Chronicle
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group advanced 0.9 percent to 338 yen. Commonwealth Bank ofAustralia, Australia's biggest lender by market value, rose 1.2 percent to A$48.01. Australia's banksare being shielded from the effects of Europe's debt crisis by ...
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BMO starting to see shift out of equities
Globe and Mail (blog)
Bank of Montreal's Canadian private bank is starting to see investors shift money out of stocks amid mounting concern related to Europe's debt crisis and a globaleconomic slowdown. Funds had flowed into equities this year until about six weeks ago, ...
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