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- The Health of Banks
- Harry Smith spoke with FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair about the agency's role in bank closings and whether their budget can handle the rise in bank closings predicted this year.
- Videos 2009-03-09
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- 5 Things That Could Kill the Housing Recovery
- The recession can't end until housing bounces back. There are many small signs of hope — and five big reasons to be cautious. ...
- Articles 2009-07-08
- How to Determine Bank Health Using Goodwill Impairments
- Tyler Durden submits: Very interesting analysis from the folks at Disclosure Insight, which takes a different approach: instead of looking at the "hard assets" themselves which have as much price transparency as a metric ton of pure grade heroin auction on the back door of the Capitol Building, DI...
- External links 2009-04-21
- For Evidence of Bank Health, Follow the Deposits
- For tea-leaf reading on the health of banks, consider depositor behavior. Troubled Citigroup, which is splitting itself into two units, has seen foreign depositors head for the exists. Citi's fourth quarter deposits of $774 billion were down 6 percent from the year earlier, American Banker reported. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Bank of International Settlements Annual Report Is a Toxic Asset Reality Check
- The Fundamental Analyst submits: It seems the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is not buying into the green shoots meme of recovery. More specifically, they call into question the health of banks that still carry large amounts of toxic assets on their balance sheets. From the Guardian: Recovery threatened...
- External links 2009-06-30
- Long-term sickness?(analysis of health of major banking institutions)(Brief Article)
- NEW YORK The rescue of Long-Term Capital Management raises disturbing questions about the health of America's and the world's leading banks. LIKE the Titanic, Long-Term Capital Management was supposed to be unsinkable. The hedge fund's dramatic downfall and bail-out last week was...
- Research articles 1998-10-03
- Lots of Good News for Stocks, Shame About the Collapse
- My last post took note of the lukewarm reaction of the stock market to the improving economic backdrop. It's a bad sign when investors get just what they want and are unmoved by it. "...the stock market seems to greet each piece of good news with a...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Are U.S. Banks Decoupling From Foreign Rivals?
- An article in The Wall Street Journal today outlines an interesting perspective: retail banks in Europe may be in better shape than investment banks. That perspective, which is being touted right now by various analysts in the region, differs from the prominent one in the U.S., where investment banks are...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- An Immodest Proposal: Break Up the Banks
- Bank of England head Mervyn King has a solution for banks that have grown too big to fail: break them up. King, viewed within financial circles as an industry wise man, in a speech Tuesday in Edinburgh advocated separating banks' core businesses of lending and taking deposits...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Economy: fed notes health of banks.(Accounting & Finance)
- Aggressive interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, strong balance sheets, and improved risk management kept U.S. banks "unusually healthy" during the 2001 recession, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson said. Ferguson told a fina Aggressive interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, strong balance...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- Christopher & Banks, a women's apparel chain with over 700 stores in 45 states, announced the resignation of Bill Prange as chairman and ceo last month, due to health reasons
- Christopher & Banks, a women's apparel chain with over 700 stores in 45 states, announced the resignation of Bill Prange as chairman and ceo last month, due to health reasons. Prange, who has been with the company for six years, has agreed to remain available to work with the company...
- Research articles 2006-01-09
- Farm Credit System banks to take steps to help stricken farmers.
- Farm Credit System banks will take steps to help stricken farmers. USDA has declared 2000 of the nation's 3100 counties as disaster areas, most resulting from severe drought in the southern and southeastern states. It's in the system's best interest. Farm Credit ...
- Research articles 1998-08-14
- Mergers, Consumer Fortunes Are Keys to U.S. Banks' 2004 Outlook
- While big mergers will continue to grab the headlines and prospects for the consumer remain something of a question mark, Fitch's outlook for the U.S. banking industry in the coming year is mostly positive. The lasting benefits of good credit quality, strong capital levels, and a hopefully less challenging interest...
- White papers 2003-12-10
- Wall Street Falls 2 Percent on Anxiety Over Banks' Health
- By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell for a third straight day on Tuesday, spooked by uncertainty over the health of financials and concerns that the explosive rally since March may have run ahead of economic reality. September began living up to its reputation as the worst...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Pacific Capital Bancorp Subsidiary Banks Recognized as `Super Premier Performers'
- SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--May, 17, 1999-- The 1998 financial performance of Pacific Capital Bancorp (NASDAQ:SABB) has earned the company's subsidiary banks top honors from three of the nation's most highly respected research firms specializing in the health of financial services providers. The agencies consider a variety of commonly...
- Research articles 1999-05-18
- The Fed Fears Deflation More Than Inflation
- In his interesting post, Scott Sumner argues that deflation is more likely than inflation, and that if it occurred, it would damage the economy by effectively raising labor costs to firms, forcing them to lay off more people and worsening our unemployment problems. In contrast, I view deflation as less...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- The SCOR System of Off-Site Monitoring: Its Objectives, Functioning, and Performance
- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC and other bank supervisors have developed a number of tools with which to monitor the health of individual banks as well as the health of the industry as a whole. One is on-site examinations: each bank is examined every 12 to 18 months and...
- White papers 2003-09-11
- Board of Directors at Daxor unanimously approve the filing of RICO against the NY State Dept. of Health; Board approves increasing fiscal 1995 stock repurchase from 250,000 shares to 350,000 shares
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--April 12, 1995--1) At a meeting of the Board of Directors of Daxor Corp., April 10, 1995, there was unanimous approval to pursue the filing of an anti-racketeering RICO suit against several members of the New York State Department of Health ("Department") who regulate semen and blood...
- Research articles 1995-04-12
- If the FDIC Is Broke, Why Are They Still Issuing Guarantees?
- Kid Dynamite submits: The point of my post yesterday about the FDIC was not to point out that the FDIC is broke - everyone knew that. The FDIC's release Tuesday gave us some serious insight into just how bad the financial situation is: the FDIC's estimates for losses...
- External links 2009-10-01
- Investigating the Relationship Between the Financial and Real Economy
- Central banks have always recognized the importance of financial stability for overall macroeconomic performance, but questions related to the health of the financial system have traditionally taken a back seat to those more directly linked to the process of inflation and growth. In recent years, however, financial stability has gained...
- White papers 2005-05-03
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