Australian & New Zealand Weekly Week beginning 9 February RBA: more to do, then on hold for longer.Westpac-MI Consumer Sentiment: will jumbo stimulus offset growth gloom?Australian data: housing finance and labour force figures due.New Zealand data: house prices and retail sales.US data: trade deficit, retail sales and consumer sentiment.US Fedspeak: Bernanke testimony, Fisher, Dudley, Evans.Key economic & financial forecasts. Australia: RBA – More to Do, then On Hold for Longer As we pr
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Large U.S. banks on brink of insolvency, experts say By Steve Lohr Some of the large banks in the United States, according to economists and other finance experts, are like dead men walking. A sober assessment of the growing mountain of losses from bad bets, measured in today’s marketplace, would overwhelm the value of the banks’ assets, th
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/bu…t.html?_r=1&hp By STEVE LOHR Published: February 12, 2009 Some of the nation’s large banks, according to economists and other finance experts, are like dead men walking. A sober assessment of the growing mountain of losses from bad bets, measured in today’s marketplace, would overwhelm the value of the banks’ assets, they say. The banks, in their view, are insolvent. None of the experts’ research focuses on individual banks, and there are c
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February 8, 2009 | By CoryShrader In real-estate | As President Obama is taking office, many people who had hoped to buy a home in 2008 or 2009 are stressing as to whether a bank will be found, which will finance a home purchase. The TARP bill (Troubled Assets Relief Program of 2008) was intended to secure bad assets in our banking institutions, in order to permit banks to open their vaults once again and issue new loans. Four months down the road, banks are still holding onto their cash i
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U.S. mortgage rates jumped to their highest levels since December in the latest week, complicating government efforts to bring mortgage rates down to levels that will spur demand and help the hard-hit housing market begin to recover.
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