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Interview with Benoît Cœuré, ECB
November 10th, 2014
Interview with Benoît Cœuré, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Theano Theiopoulou (Phileleftheros newspaper) on 9 November 2014 1. Why was banks’ participation in the ECB’s targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs) lower than expected? There ...
The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase’s Worst Nightmare
November 10th, 2014
She tried to stay quiet, she really did. But after eight years of keeping a heavy secret, the day came when Alayne Fleischmann couldn’t take it anymore. “It was like watching an old lady get mugged on the street,” she ...
E.C.B. Threatened to End Funding Unless Ireland Took Bailout, Letters Show
November 10th, 2014
Newly released documents suggest that Ireland was pressured into a controversial 67.5 billion euro bailout that left taxpayers rescuing crippled banks, reigniting a fierce debate about the international aid that Dublin accepted after the financial crash. An exchange of letters, ...
BHP to test U.S. oil export ban by selling without formal ruling
November 5th, 2014
BHP Billiton Ltd is set to be the first company to export lightly processed ultra-light U.S. oil without explicit permission from the government, further testing the limits of an increasingly contentious ban on foreign sales. Eight months after two ...
MetLife to meet skeptical regulators in bid to escape rules
November 3rd, 2014
MetLife, the largest U.S. insurer, will make a final plea on Monday to a group of U.S. regulators determined to subject it to tougher oversight as they probe which firms could pose a risk to the larger financial system. ...
The equity cult alive and kicking, despite deflation threat
October 29th, 2014
Anyone betting on another “Great Rotation” of investment flows out of bonds and into stocks is in for disappointment: it’s not happening, and isn’t going to. In a world where deflation, never the most fertile ground for equities, is ...
Tesco share price falls again: Chairman Sir Richard Broadbent steps down
October 23rd, 2014
It has been a tough few weeks for Tesco, but just how tough was revealed in first-half results posted this morning, which showed statutory profit before tax, which includes one-off items, collapsed by 91.9 per cent to £122m in ...
How Wall Street Is Killing Big Oil
October 22nd, 2014
Lee Raymond, the famously pugnacious oilman who led ExxonMobil between 1999 and 2005, liked to tell Wall Street analysts that covering the company would be boring. “You’ll just have to live with outstanding, consistent financial and operating performance,” he ...
EU leans on big banks to finance bailout fund
October 22nd, 2014
France’s banks will foot the biggest bill for Europe’s banking union, paying up to €2bn more than Germany’s lenders towards a new €55bn bank rescue fund, according to a Brussels proposal. The European Commission on Tuesday unveiled its plans ...
Fears that Pimco and other Big Firms being unable to unload risky bonds
October 17th, 2014
Financial experts warn that a small group of giant asset managers that have amassed high-risk, high-yield bonds could find themselves unable to raise enough cash during a sell-off. When it comes to high-risk bonds, the asset management giant Pimco ...
