en-us Reuters) - The Bank of Japan offered banks more short-term funds after an emergency meeting on Tuesday, winning an immediate reprieve from government pressure to help avert recession before upper house polls next year."We can say this is quantitative easing in the broad sense...]]> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:45:22 -0800 Reuters) - The coming week should signal whether a year of voracious risk appetite on financial markets is going to end with a bang, a whimper or, quite possibly, a thundering great clunk.Not only will investors have to deal with confidence-sapping fallout from Dubai's...]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:15:44 -0800 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:12:07 -0800 DE DE Reuters UK) - The world's key central banks will not need to start raising policy interest rates until late 2010 due to low inflation and economic slack, and can then proceed gradually, the OECD said in a report published on Thursday.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said it...]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:30:25 -0800 Reuters UK) - The Bank of England is keeping all options open on the scale of its quantitative easing programme, Monetary Policy Committee member Paul Fisher said on Thursday.Asked following a speech whether the programme -- a 200 billion pound asset-purchase scheme to revive economic growth --...]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:45:50 -0800 Reuters UK) - The Bank of England's balance sheet may not fall all the way back to pre-crisis levels even when it starts selling back the assets it has bought, Monetary Policy Committee member Paul Fisher said on Thursday.In a speech that broke no new ground on the monetary...]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:45:24 -0800 Reuters UK) - Peter Sands, the chief executive of Standard Chartered Plc STAN, said in an interview with the Financial Times that, if current regulatory reforms are implemented, the costs will be borne by the economy.Speaking ahead of the expected announcement on Tuesday to grant the Financial Services Authority...]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:00:49 -0800 STAN STAN Reuters UK) - The European Central Bank will not drop all of its extra liquidity support until it becomes concerned about risks on inflation, Governing Council member Athanasios Orphanides told Reuters.In an interview with Reuters, Orphanides said inflation expectations over the ECB's policy horizon...]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:16:10 -0800 Reuters) - Shares of bond insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc ABK sank 33 percent on Tuesday after the company warned it may be forced to seek bankruptcy protection if it cannot fix its liquidity problems."Ambac's available liquidity is currently insufficient to fund its needs beyond the...]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:15:16 -0800 ABK MBI ABK,MBI Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:23:08 -0800 TMR TMR Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:10:23 -0800 ME ME Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:27:08 -0700 SFI SFI Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:59:09 -0700 LNC LNC Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:34:08 -0700 KEY KEY Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:34:08 -0700 KEY KEY Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:34:08 -0700 CMA JPM CMA,JPM Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:04:13 -0700 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:08:29 -0700 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:20:51 -0700 MPG MPG Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:28:16 -0700 NCT NCT