BCG
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
In the two years since The Boston Consulting Group conducted its last Treasury Benchmarking Survey, banks have remained locked in a Sisyphean struggle. Low—and, in some cases, negative—interest rates are a major part of this struggle and have dominated the economic environment for banks.
MishTalk
JANUARY 19, 2014
At the risk of incurring another nonsensical fine for quoting someone on leverage and capital ratios of French banks, please consider European Banks Face $1 Trillion Gap Before Review. The figures assume a benchmark capital ratio for other book measures of leverage of 7 percent, they wrote. “A What Shortfall?
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MishTalk
DECEMBER 26, 2014
Next year will be a very important year for China because possible strains in the banking system and the intensity with which the reformers present their case will give us a better sense both of how much debt capacity the country retains and of how well positioned Xi Jinping and his allies are to implement the needed reforms.
MishTalk
APRIL 1, 2015
SSEC Shanghai Stock Exchange Monthly click on any chart for sharper image $SSEC Shanghai Stock Exchange Weekly Cannot Wait to Get In Since July 2014, the index has gone from roughly 2066 to 3810. The city’s benchmark index has surged 86 percent during that time, more than any of the world’s major stock gauges. Traders have opened 2.8
MishTalk
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
Alternative Bank Schweiz (ABS), a small bank in Switzerland broke the negative interest rate on deposits barrier, CHARGING customers to cake their money. The Alternative Bank Schweiz wrote to customers telling them they would face a -0.125 per cent rate on their money from 2016 – and a -0.75 emphasis in caps from the article).
MishTalk
APRIL 26, 2014
Ukraine forces barricade the rebel stronghold of Slavyansk Russia Issues Downbeat Economic Statement The World Politics Journal notes Russia’s central bank issues a downbeat statement on the Russian economy. On Friday, April 25th, Russia’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 7.5
MishTalk
JANUARY 14, 2015
100% of economists predicted yields on the long end of the US treasury curve would rise in 2014. The 5Yr-3Yr spread is 50 basis points (about half of what it was at the beginning of 2014). percentage points in March 2014. There’s a 67 percent chance the Fed will raise its benchmark rate to at least 0.5 2.47 -1.49
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