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These are the most recent articles mentioning "money markets"
Posted 04/08/08, 08:56
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, and intensifying on the High Street.
That™s what you should expect to happen. Banks and Building Societies are getting the message from the money markets that they cannot carry on lending so much. That™s why they are withdrawing their attractive mortgage offers, putting up rates and demand...
Posted 04/18/08, 13:44
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ough. We need more cash in the markets to allow banks to go about their normal business. It is one of the duties of the Bank of England to manage the money markets. They failed to take enough cash out and put interest rates high enough during the credit binge. It is important they do not now make th...
Posted 05/08/08, 06:43
This week has seen more moves to ease the Credit Crunch in the USA. The Fed has taken the drought in the money markets seriously, and has kept a big flow of liquidity available to ease the worst of the problem. The Term Auction facility is now up by another $50 billion to $150 billion. There are ...
Posted 05/17/08, 07:30
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stripped of its control of government debt issue by a power hungry Treasury which nationalised it. In place of these crucial powers and duties in the Money markets, it was given a monthly academic tea party to set indicative interest rates, rates which the markets have scorned and ignored in the las...
Posted 07/16/08, 08:05
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the unsure Darling. It first created the inflation with interest rates that were too low, then it created the credit crunch in the UK by starving the money markets of liquidity, next it started to put interest rates down, then it panicked about inflation and decided it had to keep interest rates up...
Posted 08/28/08, 06:34
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eir policy. For years Ministers have told us we needed to make houses more affordable. They have become mighty shy now their policy of starving the Money markets of cash last summer and nationalising the UK’s most aggressive lending bank, Northern Rock, is delivering lower house prices with...
Posted 08/29/08, 06:33
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y pro cyclical regulation of the banks “ too loose on the way up, too tight on the way down “ and by a government which does not seem to understand money markets.
We will now see many of those who have spent the last few years praising the mythical independent Bank demanding a chang...
Posted 08/30/08, 06:46
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The second error is to reveal just how out of touch with the financial world this man is. He tells us the first he knew of the financial problems in money markets last summer was when he saw an FT article about the ECB pumping money into their money markets! He tells us he rang the office from Majo...
Posted 08/30/08, 06:46
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The second error is to reveal just how out of touch with the financial world this man is. He tells us the first he knew of the financial problems in money markets last summer was when he saw an FT article about the ECB pumping money into their money markets! He tells us he rang the office from Majo...
Posted 08/28/08, 06:34
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eir policy. For years Ministers have told us we needed to make houses more affordable. They have become mighty shy now their policy of starving the Money markets of cash last summer and nationalising the UK’s most aggressive lending bank, Northern Rock, is delivering lower house prices with...
Posted 09/19/08, 06:59
That was quite a week in financial markets. The US Administration has been trying everything to get the money markets and the market in credits to work again. They decided that they could draw a distinction between financial institutions that were too crucial to allow to go into Administratio...
Posted 10/07/08, 06:32
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last week™s despite the approval of the massive Paulson bail out plan for the banks. Why?
Confidence has gone in the inter bank market. The money markets, under the influence of the Central Banks, are not functioning properly. If banks cannot borrow from each other and from the money marke...
Posted 10/17/08, 07:30
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st US sub prime mortgages that could destabilise banks.
It is now important to make sure that the measures taken to restart the inter bank and money markets do not make handling the recession more difficult. If the economies of the west fall too far and stay down for too long, the banks will ...
Posted 10/18/08, 07:52
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is century. We need the Bank of England to get its old powers back that this government removed. Then it might be better able to judge conditions in money markets, and avoid the excesses of easy money and tight money we have witnessed in recent years.
We also need to call today for proper control...
Posted 10/21/08, 07:10
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on is next year™s problem. Lower interest rates feed through immediately to borrowers whose rates are linked to MLR, and later will benefit others as money markets start to function better.
We need more confidence and cash in the system. That is why the Conservative leadership has bac...
Posted 10/20/08, 15:49
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on is next year™s problem. Lower interest rates feed through immediately to borrowers whose rates are linked to MLR, and later will benefit others as money markets start to function better.
We need more confidence and cash in the system. That is why the Conservative leadership has bac...
Posted 10/20/08, 14:48
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owers that it had before 1997. I would like the Bill to make it clear that the Bank of England needs to see and understand all of the business in the money markets. The Bank needs to have powers and duties so that it is the prime driver of the money markets. I would like to see the Bank have those p...
Posted 10/30/08, 07:57
First, Gordon Brown smashed the Bank of England™s ability to understand the money markets by removing their duty to regulate the day to day activities of the commercial banks, and by removing their task of raising the public debt.
Second, he set up a so called independent Monetary Policy Co...
Posted 11/04/08, 09:58
First, Gordon Brown smashed the Bank of England™s ability to understand the money markets by removing their duty to regulate the day to day activities of the commercial banks, and by removing their task of raising the public debt.
Second, he set up a so called independent Monetary Policy Co...
Posted 11/07/08, 08:33
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dle the banking crisis. Two months on from the deepening of the troubles and from the co-ordinated government responses, we still have largely frozen money markets and a credit seizure on our hands. Meanwhile the views of recession are worsening, with most forecasters rushing to catch up with realit...
Posted 11/08/08, 09:56
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t in the luxurious position governments are spinning we are in. They want us to believe the banks have been saved by Gordon, Paulson and others, that money markets are gently returning to normal and all we need to worry about is some future credit binge. If only.
What we should be worrying a...
Posted 11/10/08, 07:34
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the day called time on too much borrowing in the private sector by hoisting interest rates to make borrowing dearer. The Bank of England starved the money markets of funds to prevent banks lending more, forcing Northern Rock and a couple of other banks into trouble. In 2007 we had lectures from the...
Posted 11/16/08, 07:41
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s have ballooned and shadow banks have appeared with large borrowings, so they hike interest rates to cool them all down.
Then they starve the money markets of funds, forcing banks and other financial institutions into admitting they do not have enough cash and have borrowed too much.
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Posted 11/16/08, 07:41
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s have ballooned and shadow banks have appeared with large borrowings, so they hike interest rates to cool them all down.
Then they starve the money markets of funds, forcing banks and other financial institutions into admitting they do not have enough cash and have borrowed too much.
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Posted 12/09/08, 07:55
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compared with holdings under the predecessor regimes¯ (FSA December 2008)
In the heady days of 2007 before the August tightening of the money markets, many banks like Northern were lending large sums, and were concluding that they could either lend even more or return some capital to s...
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