Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The market panicked. That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. Those declines reflect changes in strategies and the basic business model of investment banks, post-crisis. HBR Staff/CSA Plastock/Getty Images.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Finance reports Government About to Destroy American Mortgages Permanently. These securities are sold in order to add liquidity to the mortgage market, thereby making funds available to borrowers. "If If Fannie and Freddie go away, what then happens to the mortgage markets?" Citing Dick Bove, Yahoo!Finance

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1 to 1

JULY 29, 2022

Insights into what customers want and need are more important than ever as the economy and market conditions change. And inquiries about loyalty rewards were common across nearly all industries — retail, public sector, automotive and manufacturing, travel and tourism, insurance, finance.

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MishTalk

MARCH 1, 2015

Reuters reports Austria Imposes Debt Moratorium on Heta "Bad Bank" Austria''s Financial Market Authority stepped in on Sunday to wind down "bad bank" Heta Asset Resolution and imposed a moratorium on debt repayments by the vehicle set up last year from the remnants of defunct lender Hypo Alpe Adria. billion euros ($8.51 More than 9.8

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2013

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The figures follow a deal agreed by European regulators earlier this month that will bring in so-called bail-in rules for senior bondholders from 2016, two years earlier than envisaged by finance ministers in their common position agreed in June. Also consider "stress tests".

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2014

In Emerging Market Contagion Spreads , I presented a viewpoint that emerging market currencies have been under pressure because of falling commodity prices. To be fair, quite a few emerging market currencies as well as the currencies of developed countries that are large commodity exporters have been under pressure for some time.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. California, Texas, and most of the U.S.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

The BIS slam, coupled with a recent stock market selloff, brought up debate on a " controlled collapse ". Over the past few years, non-financial corporations in a number of EMEs have borrowed heavily through their foreign affiliates in the capital markets, with the debt denominated mainly in foreign currency.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years.

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MishTalk

APRIL 7, 2014

Sharon Bowles, the chair of the parliament’s economics and finance committee, said the revisions were essential to accommodate national central banks that “do not have big balance sheets” and need extra guarantees from the state when lending to struggling lenders.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The founder of modern international finance, Amschel Rothschild, gave the aims and direction of his enterprise simple instruction when he declared he cared not what governments did, all he wanted was the right to control, print their money. When I began investing, one looked at the real property on balance sheets.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 28, 2014

"Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world''s largest bank by assets, said on Thursday that it has no plans to use its own money to repay investors in a troubled off-balance-sheet investment product that it helped to market." Investors should have taken a hit. Certainly the promised 10% yield was too good to be true.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Of course, there is also persistent overoptimism about earnings growth and stock market expectations. In November 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee began releasing projections for real GDP growth four times per year in its Summary of Economic Projections (SEP). The track record on recessions is perfect.

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MishTalk

JUNE 28, 2013

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Nonetheless, the long bear market of the 1970s that lasted until 1982 caused valuations of the nifty fifty to fall to low levels along with the rest of the market, with most of the Nifty-Fifty under-performing the broader market averages. Trailing PE: 319 Forward PE: 462 Market Cap: $51.53 Market Cap: $311.04

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Historically, commercial banking and investment banking functions have been separated by law – these restrictions have since been repealed and larger banks tend to take on capital markets operations due to the complimentary nature of the businesses. In secondary markets, the sales & trading function operates as a market maker.

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MishTalk

JULY 7, 2015

China's Market and Policy Timeline Bloomberg has an interesting graph of China's Market and Policy Timeline. Another 173 firms listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen announced trading suspensions after the market closed on Tuesday, bringing the total to around 940, or more than a third of all listed firms on the two exchanges.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 25, 2015

A finance ministry official confirmed on Friday that state revenues had collapsed this month. The monthly Bank of Greece balance sheet data for the month of December revealed a significant increase in Greek bank ECB borrowing which rose by €11bn in December to €57bn (including €1bn of Emergency Liquidity Assistance).

Banking 28

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

They lower mortgage and consumer financing costs for households, who represent a substantial portion of total borrowing, allowing them greater spending power. They also tend to be associated with rising stock and real estate markets, which, by making households feel wealthier, encourages higher consumption.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

I don''t and neither does Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets. The Financial Times reports China house price surge raises prospect of steps to cool market. Deposit rates are still low and the stock market has been uncooperative. Bulls think China is on the mend. Bullish Arguments. Property Prices Rising.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

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MishTalk

JULY 2, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver.

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Trends Analysis Real Estate Financial 63

MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Many of these uses of bond proceeds are not eligible for tax-exempt financing under the federal tax code." Who Is Kristi Culpepper? You should be.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver.

Real Estate 61

Real Estate Financial Policies Advertising 61

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

On September 4, ECB President pulled out a financial bazooka including a pledge to build up the ECB''s balance sheet by another €1 trillion. In this case, the stench on Greek bank balance sheets will not go away. Instead, stench will also appear on the balance sheet of the ECB.

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Balance Sheet Real Estate Banking Policies 75

MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Roughly one in five of the euro zone''s top lenders failed landmark health checks at the end of last year but most have since repaired their finances, the European Central Bank said on Sunday. However, the total amount of under-capitalization is a mere €48 billion out of balance sheets that total €22 trillion.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. For instance, before the crisis, the three largest German banks had two-thirds of their total assets in foreign markets; today it is only one-third. And it is not alone.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It does not need to borrow money from foreign countries to finance its ongoing deficit (because there is no deficit). Having lost access to the capital markets, the Greek government relied on the bailout funds to pay its bills. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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MishTalk

JUNE 30, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver.

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Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial 72

MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The latest proposals could see up to 126 people being consulted on how to wind up a bank, even though agreement might need to be reached over the course of a weekend while financial markets are closed. At the heart of the disagreement is what to do when so-called bank resolution funds, financed by the banking sector, run out of money.

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Banking Finance Balance Sheet Financial 73

MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2014

Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets taught me much of what I know about global trade. Mish : Despite the obvious casino-like structure of global equity and bond markets, the poker game analogy is an extremely poor one. I am very appreciative. I tend to agree with most of his views.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2015

BitGold just completed a financing for C$18 million, which included some top name institutional investors. After this financing, BitGold’s two main owners are the shareholders of GoldMoney and Roy Sebag, whose understanding of gold is as deep as anyone I have ever met. Gold still represents a tiny fraction of global financial assets.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2014

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.

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