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companies of vital finance - and nationalising the process of providing credit?
The government hopes and believes there is such a "third way", to use an arguably tarnished term beloved of a recent prim
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Tom RafteryPortuguese central bank: Portugal's banks are too dependent on ECB loans & need lots of new capital - http://j.mp/1awBC3
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Giorgio BertiniBut the really urgent issue is the breakdown of wholesale markets, and the increasing difficulty that almost all banks are having in funding themselves on a day-to-day basis.The basic problem is that the collapses of Lehman and Washington Mutual have made
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Dennis NuttingVisit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.
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Jane Wilderscould be useful site for students and those who want to keep abreast of economic developments
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left wing
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on hold
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stupendous
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predecessor
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$10,000bn
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Trying to reorganise the auto industry in bankruptcy would be as close to reorganising the whole US economy as you could get," he said. "The vast supply chain involves thousands of businesses, millions of existing jobs and just as many retirees, as well as whole communities and states".
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27 Oct 08
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First, we're seeing the end of the carry trade, the investment of cheap, low-interest loans raised in yen and dollars for investment in higher yielding financial markets, such as those of the emerging economies, Iceland and - to an extent - the UK.
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A second phenomenon is the one I described in my note of earlier this morning ("Hungary, Goldman and Regulators"), namely that the conversion of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs into banks is sucking the juice out of hedge funds.
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Finally, the global economic slowdown has prompted a re-evaluation and re-pricing of risk, in the jargon.
Or, to translate, investors have in the course of 14 months gone from the mad conviction that busts had been abolished to the fear that everything's going bust.
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jmohan29fur"BBC BLOGS - Peston's Picks
New ice age for bankers
Robert Peston | 09:15 UK time, Friday, 18 December 2009
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For all the furore about Alistair Darling's bonus super-tax, and for all the disclosure overnight by Deutsche Bank that it will spread the pain across all staff and shareholders around the world and not just in the UK, there is a much bigger threat to business-as-usual for banks and bankers." -
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Lloyd ShepherdIs that makes Peston so alarmingly uncomfortable on TV also what makes him such a great blogger? Random informed verbosity - the hallmark of the ace blogger.
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In practice, it means banks who sell their debts to the Treasury would receive cash equivalent to something like twice the value in their books of these poisonous assets.
In other words banks would book a profit from selling to taxpayers!
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bruceelrickPersuading Damon Buffini to be interviewed for broadcast has been like teaching a cat to swim. The boss of Europe's largest private equity firm is allergic to being in the public eye (it is called “private” equity, after all).
But he finally agreed
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