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How Much Will Foreign Banks Lose On US Mortgage Collapse? $75 Billion... Or Maybe $450 Billion »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 4 months ago in Business & Finance
The current consensus is that while U.S. banks are hopelessly riddled with mortgage junk, crafty foreign banks have more or less escaped the asset-backed ...
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Bankers Stare into the Abyss »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 3 months ago in Business & Finance
The last year has not been kind to bankers. Many of them probably feel like the whole world has turned against them. Regulators and auditors ...
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Home Prices Seem Far From Bottom »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
Home prices across much of the country are likely to fall through late 2009, economists say, and in some markets the trend could last even ...
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A Tale of Two Bubbles »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
Credit markets have started to thaw, yet stocks and the larger economy keep sliding. What's going on? Among the problems are the reality of ...
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AIG Has Used Much of Its $123 Billion Bailout Loan »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
The troubled insurance giant American International Group already has consumed three-quarters of a federal $123 billion rescue loan, a little more than a month after ...
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Lebanon banks thrive during international financial catastrophe »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year ago in Business & Finance
The world maybe in meltdown but Beirut is booming. The country best known for wars, turmoil and instability has not just survived the global financial ...
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Market News Live: Video - Report: Gov't could take a bigger chunk of Citi »
Posted by: SNance 10 months, 1 week ago in News
The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the situation, said late Sunday that Citigroup Inc. is negotiating with authorities to increase the U.S ...
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Why Have Gold and Silver Fallen? »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 4 months ago in Business & Finance
Investors go from market to market, trying to find the next market that is going to boom. This chase proves to be futile. They chase ...
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The Problems Caused By Sub-prime Mortgages »
Posted by: altnrg 1 year, 3 months ago in Business & Finance
There has been a lot of talk in the news lately about sub-prime mortgages, the credit crisis, and a possible recession caused by these issues ...
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Bank Loans Have Not 'Dried Up' »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 3 months ago in Business & Finance
The frantic congressional push to "do something" about mortgage-backed bank investments has been widely defended with equally frantic claims that U.S. bank lending to ...
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We Are Facing an Inflation Holocaust »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
Markets do not trust the governments' plans to keep struggling banks alive and investors will only calm down when the companies with bad assets are ...
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10 Things to Understand About the Housing Bubble and the Debt Crisis »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 5 months ago in Business & Finance
In time, history will provide a fulsome overview of the twin housing and debt crises, perhaps the most challenging debacle since the Great Depression. At ...
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This train crash’s final impact is still awaited »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 4 months ago in Business & Finance
It was Jeremy Grantham, one of the most respected sages in the world of fund management, who first described the problems gripping the credit market ...
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Brown and Darling have bitten the bullet - and set the world an example »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
Those that were asking for a decisive intervention to halt a financial pandemic certainly got it yesterday. It was almost too big for shell-shocked markets ...
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UBS loses favour with angry Swiss »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 year, 1 month ago in Business & Finance
It has been a hard year for the biggest Swiss bank, UBS. After losing millions in the US sub-prime mortgage market, it has had to ...
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