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- Early (Rumored) Stress Test Results
- Why wait a whole day for the official results of the stress tests when there are rumors to spread? You've already heard that 10 of the 19 banks need dough, so here's a roundup of what's being bantered around 24 hours prior to the release of the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
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- Spring Meetings: IMF and World Bank Need to Step Up on Labour Rights and Inequality.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-26 March 2007-ITUC: Spring Meetings: IMF and World Bank Need to Step Up on Labour Rights and InequalityC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:26032007 Brussels - The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund must do far more to support labour rights,...
- Research articles 2007-03-26
- No will on Hill to kill ex-Im bank
- The law that authorizes the Export-Import Bank of the United States expires this year. If a new law to reauthorize this federal agency is not approved by Congress and signed by President Bush, the agency will cease to exist. Subcommittees of the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services...
- Research articles 2001-06-25
- Give growth a chance: Europe's central bank need be in no hurry to raise interest rates.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
- THIS newspaper often stands accused of being written by inflation zealots who see ghosts (for inflation is dead, you understand) around every corner and who never met a rise in interest rates they didn't like. Certainly, we have long urged central banks to act pre-emptively- -to...
- Research articles 1999-10-30
- Bank-sold annuity targets low-deposit buyers.
- Ford Life has begun marketing the bank-sold MoneyBuilder Annuity for low-deposit buyers. The initial investment need only be $100 and each subsequent investment also need only be $100. Ford Life's other bank-sold annuity, sold before the MoneyBuilder, reqFord Life has begun marketing the bank-sold MoneyBuilder Annuity for low-deposit buyers. The...
- Research articles 1994-06-13
- Bank of America Posts $1 Billion Loss
- By Joe Rauch and Elinor ComlayCHARLOTTE, N.C./NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Bank of America BAC posted a $1 billion (611.2 million pound) quarterly loss on Friday as consumer credit woes eclipsed investment banking earnings, underlining why the bank remains on a government respirator.The nation's largest bank received two taxpayer bailouts...
- News items 2009-10-16
- First Bank & Trust Refuses Fed Bailout
- The way major financial institutions are feasting on taxpayer-backed bailouts, you'd think every bank in this country has on the feed bag. Not true. Just north of Chicago, dwelling in the People's Republic of Evanston, is First Bank & Trust -- a 13-year-old community...
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Many Banks Still Plagued by Bad Loans, May Need More Capital
- The greatest threat to the financial system is the billions of dollars in toxic assets that continue to clog bank balance sheets, says the Congressional Oversight Panel, a government group formed to monitor financial reform, in a report issued today. The good news is that the nation's...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Bank of America's Capital Requirement To Boost Government Stake
- It's looking less and less likely Bank of America will be repaying the funds it borrowed through the Treasury Asset Relief Program TARP early, as it had once hoped. The Wall Street Journal reported that regulators told the bank it needs to address a capital shortfall of...
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- GMAC Didn't Need Bank Status, After All
- The net effect is nearly the same, but there's a real twist in the fine print of the agreements by which GMAC Financial Services became a bank holding company and qualified for a government bailout. Under the GMAC bailout, the U.S. Treasury Department on Dec. 29 said it was buying $5...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Need to know: Time Warner falls 7%... Greggs sales up... Kier deal
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Interest rates: The Bank of England should cut interest rates by either a half-point or a full percentage point today, The Times Monetary Policy Committee recommended in a split vote. Three of the nine members of the panel said that no...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Need to know: Unite joint venture ... SAS job cuts ... Swisscom profits rise ...
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Unemployment: Official data showed that nearly one million young people are out of work as unemployment hit a 14-year high. More than 700,00 18 to 24-year-olds and 206,000 16 to 17-year-olds are jobless. Inflation: Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of...
- News items 2009-08-12
- EGYPT: NO NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL FINANCING PROGRAM.
- According to Al-Hayat newspaper (October 12, 2002), the Egyptian government that the World Bank and the African Development Bank do not need a new financing program from international organizations. Thus, Egypt postponed a one billion dollar financin According to Al-Hayat newspaper (October 12, 2002), the Egyptian...
- Research articles 2002-10-14
- Thai Central Bank Chief Sees No Need for Capital Increases.
- Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 25--Local banks have no immediate need to raise new capital this year, according to M.R. Pridiyathorn Devakula, governor of the Bank of Thailand. "There are no banks right now that face a...
- Research articles 2003-01-25
- Credit Default Swaps are the Real Stress in Bank Tests
- Stress tests to be revealed Thursday will likely show that while subprime, corporate and commercial real estate loans are doing their fair share of tearing apart bank balance sheets, the real gremlin in the banking engine is the credit default swap, or CDS. Credit default swaps are...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Windy City bank may buy charter: could enter local market via Nat'l City. (South Shore Bank; National City Corp.; Ohio Bancorp)
- National City Corp.'s acquisition of Youngtown-based Ohio Bancorp may help South Shore Bank clear a big hurdle blocking its entrance to the Cleveland market. The hurdle is the Chicago bank's need for an Ohio bank charter. Reciprocal banking laws betweNational City Corp.'s acquisition of Youngtown-based Ohio...
- Research articles 1993-12-20
- Bank of America Defends its Record of Helping Homeowners
- Bank of America is doing damage control after its spanking yesterday by the feds over moving too slowly to help homeowners stave off foreclosure through the government's Home Affordable Modification Program. A fusillade of bad press prompted the company late yesterday to issue the following statement by Barbara Desoer, president...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Central Bank Officials Raise the Volume About Yuan
- Erwan Mahe submits: We are happy to note that the currency balances and imbalances we have been monitoring closely in recent days are on the front burner. While central banks like the Swiss National Bank have long identified the dangerous deflationary effect of overly strong currencies and have...
- External links 2009-10-06
- Need to know: Bingo tax burden ... Altria profits rise ... Boots health website ...
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Interest rates: Bank of England policymakers voted unanimously this month to keep interest rates at 0.5 per cent and to keep the size of its asset purchase programme unchanged at £175 billion, the minutes from the meeting of the Bank's Monetary...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Need to know: Greggs profits rise ... Citigroup to be sued ... Thorntons credit facility ...
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Trade gap: The trade in goods deficit widened in June to £6.45 billion, after a surge in imports of oil. The gap was bigger than the £6.174 billion reported in May. Imports rose by 2.2 per cent, the biggest increase since...
- News items 2009-08-11
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