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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

Firstly, by outlining the major items on a bank’s income statement, and then by discussing key ratios that are commonly used to measure profitability and to estimate the market value for banks. The interest rate set by the central bank serves as a benchmark or reference rate for banks. Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) ratio).

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Monetarists Accuse ECB of "Dangerous Game of Chicken"; The REAL Dangerous Game

MishTalk

In addition to holding its benchmark rate at 0.25%, the ECB also left the rate it pays on bank deposits unchanged at zero. The eurozone is doing so by accident, letting market forces drain liquidity from the financial system for month after month. Retail sales fell 1.6pc in December, the biggest drop for two-and-a-half years.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

MishTalk

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. A similar crash in public opinion awaits Bernanke for fueling one of the biggest, if not the biggest stock and bond market bubbles in history. Here we are.