Tags: 2008 Election + Bailout + Fed + Federal Funds + GNMA + Interest Rates + investing + McCain + obama + Palin + Treasury
The financial makets are in turmoil following the $700 billion bailout passed by the US Congress. What happened is that the frank reality of the bailout debate raised the level of awareness about the actual size of the financial system’s problem and indeed raised questions about the amount necessary to fix it– for example, no mention was ever made of the Government […]
October 7, 2008 - Economy, Markets, Politics - 0 Comments
Tags: BOE + Federal Reserve + Interest Rates + investing + LIBOR + Stocks
The Bank of England today announced a plan to swap government bonds for mortgages held at its banks for a term of 1-3 years. Under the BOE plan this would give British banks some long term capital to continue lending,
April 21, 2008 - Economy, Markets - 0 Comments
Tags: Bonds + Economy + Fed + Interest Rates + investing + Stocks
Interest rates are expected to be lowered again in the US and almost certainly will be lowered in the European Union if an economic slowdown marked by rising unemployment occurs as it seems to be in England, particularly London. Yet the global markets ex US & England are witnessing something quite different. While
April 18, 2008 - Economy, Markets - 0 Comments
Tags: Bear Stearns + Bonds + FINRA + Interest Rates + investing + SEC
US Financial companies (banks and brokers) continue to take write-offs for bad and risky loans. Exacerbating the credit crisis is the new, illiquidity of Auction Rate Securities (ARS)– fixed income securities issued by companies, municipalities, schools and hospitals with long term maturities that have variable interest rates that are typically reset every 7 - 35 days. Now […]
April 17, 2008 - Markets - 0 Comments
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