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- Obama Cautious On Bank Plan
- With the Treasury Dept. taking stock of the "toxic assets" affecting many troubled banks and a huge Wall Street rally, the White House remains cautiously optimistic. Chip Reid reports.
- Videos 2009-03-23
- Value In Toxic Assets?
- Despite record foreclosures, and falling home prices, 85 % of homeowners pay their mortgages. As Wyatt Andrews reports, those "toxic assets" might actually mean good news for banks and consumers.
- Videos 2009-03-23
- Salvaging Troubled Banks
- With toxic assets being cleaned up and a huge Wall Street rally, is the economy finally getting back on track? Katie Couric spoke with Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab.
- Videos 2009-03-23
- Toxic Assets Clogging Banks
- Only on the Web: The Treasury Department has unveiled a new plan to rid U.S. banks of their "toxic assets" by buying up their failed loans. Bianca Solorzano reports.
- Videos 2009-03-24
- 'Toxic-Bank' Details Released
- Public and private money will buy up bad assets in an effort to jumpstart the economy, reports Bill Plante. Harry Smith talks to Dr. Christina Romer, a White House adviser, on the economic strategy.
- Videos 2009-03-23
- Toxic Assets Wreck Wall St.
- Many banks are expected to fail the "stress test," leading the market into a tumble, reports Priya David. Julie Chen talks to financial manager Art Cashin.
- Videos 2009-04-21
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- State-backed BPCE underwrites Natixis toxic assets
- By Sudip Kar-Gupta of Reuters PARIS - French state-backed bank BPCE will provide a safety net for €35 billion ($US50 billion $A60 billion) of toxic assets at Natixis, its struggling investment banking arm, which posted its fifth straight quarterly loss. Natixis' battered shares jumped by a third on the move,...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Shopping for Toxic Assets at the Zombie Bank: Final Chapter of the Credit Crunch?
- Timothy Geithner's new plan is to raise $2.5 trillion or so from the private sector to co-invest with him buying Toxic Assets. That sounds risky; but perhaps the flight to safety is over-priced these days? If so then "safety" is "risky". But there are a few things I don't...
- External links 2009-02-18
- AIG Now Fed's Vehicle for Buying Toxic Assets
- Michael Steinberg submits: The Washington Post from Bloomberg News "With Fed's Help, AIG Unloads $16 Billion in Credit Default Swaps" reports that American International Group AIG retired another $16B face value of credit default swaps for $6.7B by purchasing the underlying securities and canceling the contracts. The insured counterparties were...
- External links 2008-12-26
- Boston Fed Head: Ditch the Bad Assets So Banks Can Focus on Future Prospects
- submits: When debating the "toxic assets" issue, the top concern in my mind is always the toxic assets souring these flopping institutions' payrolls (*ahem* Vikram Pandit, anyone?), the toxic assets running the presses at the Fed, and of course the toxic assets in charge of the loot (need...
- External links 2009-03-02
- Credit Suisse bankers are getting toxic bonuses
- As Wall Street banks face public outrage over the large bonuses they plan to pay workers this year, Credit Suisse's investment banking unit told senior bankers on Thursday that they would have to eat their own cooking. Credit Suisse will pay a portion of bonuses for thousands of its senior investment...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Bernanke suggests U.S. buy toxic assets from banks
- By Tamawa Desai LONDON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke on Tuesday suggested the incoming Obama administration may want to retool the government's approach to fighting the credit crisis and tap a $700 billion financial rescue fund to sop up bad assets on the books of banks. In his...
- News items 2009-08-07
- FDIC Won?t Rule Out Banks as Buyers of Toxic Assets
- Rolfe Winkler, CFA submits: During a press conference Wednesday, FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair was asked about this morning’s WSJ report that banks are lobbying to buy assets under Geithner’s toxic asset plan, the PPIP. She says banks will not be able to bid on their own assets,...
- External links 2009-05-28
- 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
- RBS Near Deal on Toxic Asset Scheme: Sources
- By Clara Ferreira-MarquesLONDON (Reuters UK) - Royal Bank of Scotland RBS is close to agreeing more flexible terms on a government insurance scheme for bad debts, in a deal that will include asset sales to appease EU antitrust concerns, sources close to the deal said.The so-called Asset Protection Scheme APS...
- News items 2009-10-31
- RBS near deal on toxic asset scheme, sources say
- By Clara Ferreira-Marques of Reuters LONDON -- Royal Bank of Scotland is close to agreeing more flexible terms on a government insurance scheme for bad debts, in a deal that will include asset sales to appease EU antitrust concerns, sources close to the deal said. The so-called Asset Protection Scheme...
- News items 2009-10-31
- RBS Near Deal on Toxic Asset Scheme - Sources
- By Clara Ferreira-MarquesLONDON (Reuters UK) - Royal Bank of Scotland RBS is close to agreeing more flexible terms on a government insurance scheme for bad debts, in a deal that will include asset sales to appease EU antitrust concerns, sources close to the deal said.The so-called Asset Protection Scheme APS...
- News items 2009-11-01
- Responding to the Toxic Boss
- We've heard a lot recently about what to do with toxic assets, but perhaps a closer-to-home question is, how should we handle a toxic boss? You know this creature from a hundred yards away-- their yelling at subordinates usually carries that far. It's the boss who dumps...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Toxic Assets and the Anglo-American Financial Axis
- Clive Corcoran submits: In a rare act of candor, almost amounting to schadenfredue, one G7 finance minister appears to be lecturing the US on how to sort out its legacy assets problem. As reported yesterday, in connection with the G7 meeting being held in Washington, Alistair Darling, the UK...
- External links 2009-04-26
- Today's Green Shoots: First Buds of Spring or Toxic Mold on Our Bread?
- Dr. Stephen Leeb submits:Stock prices rose last week for the 12th time in the past 13 weeks, which makes this the biggest quarterly winning streak in the past 20 years or so. We have to attribute much of the advance to higher consumer confidence resulting from the perception...
- External links 2009-06-09
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