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• Comparing Canada’s Big 5 Banks

  
  MoneyEnergy — Authority: 494
  Many people know that financials make up about 30% of the S&P/TSX .  Many also know that Canada’s banking system was rated the safest , most stable banking system in the world during the past financial crisis (and, in fact, is still considered so). But if you’re not Canadian and not familiar with the ...
  22 hours ago

• Bank of England Reveals Secret £62bn mission to save banking sector within hours of collapse

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 547
  Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS were given a secret £61.6 billion in bridging loans last year on top of the £500 billion of support that the banking sector received from the taxpayer, the Governor of the Bank of England disclosed yesterday. MPs expressed astonishment when Mervyn King told them about the emergency ...
  1 day ago

• Red Alert: The Second Wave of The Financial Tsunami By Matthias Chang

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 150
  Since the last quarter of 2008, unrelenting currency warfare has been waged by the key global economies and while this competition thus far has been non-antagonistic, it will soon be antagonistic because the inherent differences are irreconcilable. The consequences to the global economy will be devastating and for the ...
  2 days ago

• Why Worry About Bank Failures?

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 603
  Depositors Must Retain Confidence (Photo: flickr.com) Depositor confidence in the banking system is vital to the working of the modern economy. Banks lend out money assuming that they are not going to face a situation where all their depositors demand to withdraw funds simultaneously. At the same time, ...
  5 days ago

• Manmohan confident US will overcome economic crisis

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is pretty confident that the US will recover from the global economic crisis, thanks to the skills of the US business class and the US educational system.“I hope the United States will recover from last year’s disaster,” he said in an interview with ...
  6 days ago

• Centre disburses Rs.1.38 lakh crore agriculture credits to farmers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Nov (ANI): The Union Agriculture Ministry said here on Thursday that Rs. 1.38 lakh crore have been disbursed among farmers across the country as agriculture credit up to September.This is about 42.41 percent of the target fixed for the current fiscal. The target to be achieved during 2009-10 is to the tune ...
  1 week ago

• Derivatives Regulation

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 123
  Senate Banking Committee Chair Sen. Dodd is developing one bill for regulation of the financial sector.  The Obama Administration has, of course, made various proposals for regulation.  Now two House Democrats--Financial Services Committee Chair Barney Frank and Agriculture Committee Chair Collin Peterson --are ...
  1 week ago

• $500 Million, and an Apology, From Goldman Sachs

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 547
  How much good will can an apology — and half a billion dollars — buy? Goldman Sachs is hoping it will be a lot. After first staunchly defending its outsize profits and pay, and then bristling at calls for restraint in these tough economic times, Goldman is trying a new tack: It is apologizing for past mistakes ...
  1 week ago

• Federal Reserve Exacerbating The Mess

  
  BASIL & SPICE--FINANCIAL WELL BEING — Authority: 129
  John M. Mason- Yesterday, I posted a report on the strategy of the Federal Reserve to exit its position of excessive monetary ease.  In that report I mentioned that since August, the total reserves in the banking system had shown a substantial increase. Looking a little further into the data we find that the ...
  1 week ago

• Brazilian Banking Sector Set to Record Double Digit Growth

  
  Press About — Authority: 160
  As per a recent report “Opportunities in Brazil Banking Sector” by RNCOS, a leading market research firm, Brazilian banking sector is strong, diversified and adequately capitalized. Its high levels of capitalization have allowed it to weather the recent global credit crunch well. Despite the economic slowdown, the ...
  1 week ago

• Buffett said “derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction” and mass destruction is exactly what happened.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Here’s the kicker: the derivatives exposures of the national US banks are going up every quarter. GS derivatives exposure is 340 times assets. JPM derivatives exposure is 48 times assets. BAC derivatives exposure is 27 times assets. That’s just the derivatives exposures. That doesn’t even include the exposures ...
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• Following The Money Trail: Inflation A Key Theme For 2010

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 135
  ``Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat”-Sun Tzu WAY past the self imposed $300 billion and October deadline, the US Federal Reserve continues to load up on long dated US treasuries this week. Figure 1 Cleveland Federal Reserve: ...
  1 week ago

• Solution: ONE DOLLAR OF CAPITAL

  
  The Market Ticker — Authority: 670
  It never, ever ends, does it? Our company, J.P. Morgan Chase , employs more than 220,000 people, serves well over 100 million customers, lends hundreds of millions of dollars each day and has operations in nearly 100 countries. And if some unforeseen circumstance should put this firm at risk of collapse, I believe ...
  1 week ago

• Another Record Debt Sale = Record borrowing for the U.S.

  
  Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks — Authority: 431
  Ian Mathias (The Daily Reckoning ): The U.S. government will finish its historic streak of debt sales today with a record $16 billion offering of 30-year bonds. This will pile on top the $65 billion in 3-year and 10-year paper auctioned earlier this week, both records in their own right. It’s worth noting that ...
  1 week ago

• More Bernanke Follies - Bank Debt Rollover

  
  The Market Ticker — Authority: 670
  Just when you thought it might be safe to go back in the water with regards to the banking system - and markets : The flood of expiring debt will hit the US and the UK hard – with $2,000bn of debt coming due by 2012 – and could curb banks’ profits or force them to charge individuals and companies more for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Govt. will assess the need for extending further stimulus for the exporting community

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 451
  The commerce and industry ministry will review the growth of the countrys export sector by the middle of this month to assess the need for extending further stimulus for the exporting community, particularly, the labour-intensive sectors. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reserve Bank increases Statutory Reserve Deposit Requirement

  
  Invest in Fiji — Authority: 114
  The Reserve Bank of Fiji has announced that it will increase banks Statutory Reserve Deposits to 7%, from the current 5%. The increase will reduce the amount of funds that banks available for lending and other purposes. The move comes as inflation rates rose to 6.3% in September 2009 from 5.1% a month earlier. ...
  2 weeks ago

• British PM calls for talks on finance levy

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for serious consideration of a levy on financial activity to help insure the banking system from another crisis.
  2 weeks ago

• Credits card anyone?

  
  The Article Blog — Authority: 141
  The emergence of electronic age made almost everything possible to people. Determining and curing terminal diseases made convenient, reaching uncharted territories became a possibility, and most of all; everyday life of people is made easy by the technology. We now have more convenient stores, easier means of ...
  2 weeks ago

• About Those Stress Tests...

  
  The Market Ticker — Authority: 670
  I said at the time they were nowhere near "stressful" enough in their "more adverse" scenario. I was right. Heres the table (thanks to Northwoodspete for pulling and posting it on the forum) How about a bit of reality? Real GDP looks to be a fairly decent guess on "more adverse", but the problem is ...
  2 weeks ago

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