Credit Markets

Crunch Time: Bank Downgrade, Credit Squeeze Signal Possible Return To 2008

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Global Credit Crunch, Eurozone, Eurozone Crisis, Lending, European Union, Global Credit Crisis, Credit Crisis, Credit Crunch, Credit Markets, European Central Bank, European Debt Crisis, Video, Ecb, Mario Draghi, Europe, Sovereign Debt Crisis, Business News

The situation in Europe is hitting global credit markets, making it harder for companies and banks to secure loans. Investors are buying fewer corpora...

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How To Prevent Economic Crises

Bloomberg | Sylvia Nasar | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Nazi, John Maynard Keynes, War Debt, World War I, International Monetary Fund, Kings College, World Bank, Friedrich Hayek, World War II, Credit Markets, Great Depression, Business News

Unlike the movies, life rarely permits second takes. But the Second World War gave John Maynard Keynes, the patron saint of government activism, and F...

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How Small Business Could Squelch Recovery

TIME.com | Roya Wolverson | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Gold Futures, Roya Wolverson, Small Business, Liquidity-Trap, Time Magazine, Pepperdine, Credit Markets, Small Business Lending, Business News

Forget gold futures. For many economists, small business lending is the safest gauge of the economic recovery's strength. Too bad it's headed in the w...

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'The Destruction of Economic Facts'

BusinessWeek | Hernando De Soto | Posted 06.30.2011

Read More: Financial Reform, Economic Facts, Hernando De Soto, Economists, Banks, Credit Markets, Recession, Business News

he results are hardly surprising. In the U.S., trust has broken down between banks and subprime mortgage holders; between foreclosing agents and court...

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Citi Ordered To Pay Back Investors For Bad Muni Securities

Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Securities Litigation, Citigroup Settlement, Citigroup Global Markets, Credit Markets, Brush Creek Capital, Gerald Hosier, Asta Finance, Citigroup, Investors, Business News

NEW YORK, April 12 (Joseph A. Giannone) - An arbitration panel ordered Citigroup Inc (C.N) to pay a group of investors $54.1 million for losses from...

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Small Businesses, Banks May Not Want Any Part Of Obama Aid Plan

AP | PALLAVI GOGOI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business Bill 2010, Small Business Bill, Community Banks, Entrepreneurs, Small Business Bill Obama. Small Business Aid, Credit Markets, Bank Loans, Small Business Lending, Business News

NEW YORK — President Barack Obama's $30 billion small community business lending program faces one big challenge: many of the community banks an...

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Moody's: Banks Have Written Down 2/3 Of Bad Loans

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Writedowns, Bank Lending, Mortgage Loans, Credit Crisis, Credit Markets, Banks Bad Loans, Bank Writedowns, Moody's, Business News

NEW YORK — Moody's Investors Service said Wednesday it appears U.S. banks have written off about two-thirds of the bad loans they're likely to face ...

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Bad Credit? For Corporate Borrowers, It's Not A Problem

AP | MATTHEW CRAFT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bad Credit, Junk Bonds, Bond Market, Corporate Borrowing, Credit Rating, Credit Markets, Bonds, Coprorate Bonds, Business News

NEW YORK — With rising fears of a prolonged recession and stomach-churning moves in the stock market, corporate bond markets have performed so well ...

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Credit Still Tightening, Fed Governor Elizabeth Duke Says

nytimes.com | SEWELL CHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fed Governor, Credit, Bank Lending, Consumer Credit, Elizabeth Duke, Columbus Ohio, Federal Reserve, Credit Markets, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The level of outstanding credit in the American economy continues to fall as strong and weak banks alike pull back on lending, worsening...

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Treasury Rethinks TARP: Strong Banks, Weak Credit

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Finanical-Crisis, Treasury Department, Credit, Bailout, Wall Street, Lending, Tim Geithner, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Gm, Banks, Consumer Spending, Credit Markets, Recession, Business News

WASHINGTON — Big banks are roaring back. At crisis' edge last year, they are repaying billions of dollars dumped into their vaults to rescue th...

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FDIC Chief Sheila Bair: Big Banks Still Aren't Lending Enough

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdic, Bank Lending, Credit Markets, Bailout, Lending, Loans, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Banks, Sheila Bair, Tarp, Business News

NEW YORK — The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday she's "very worried" that the nation's biggest banks aren't lending enou...

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After TARP Exits, Obama Searching For New Ways To Boost Credit

BusinessWeek | Bradley Keoun | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banks Lending, Citigroup, Wall Street, Credit Markets, Banks, Wells Fargo, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Bank of America, Main Street, Obama, Lending, Tarp, Business News

It will take more than a guilt trip to boost credit. With Citigroup (C) and Wells Fargo (WFC) joining JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Bank of America (BAC) i...

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Summers: Banks Are "Unintended Beneficiaries" Of The Bailout

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Wall Street, Bailout, Lending, Tim Geithner, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Banks, Ben Bernanke, Obama, Credit Markets, Lawrence Summers, Fiscal Policy, Business News

For Lawrence Summers, the president's economic adviser, the financial crisis is kind of like a military battle. Buried in this Wall Street Journal abo...

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Meredith Whitney: Small Business Left Out In The Cold In Bailout

wsj.com | MEREDITH WHITNEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meredith Whitney, Small Business, Bailout, Economy, Financial Crisis, Banks, Entrepreneurs, Credit Cards, Credit Markets, Small Business Lending, Recession, Business News

Since the onset of the credit crisis over two years ago, available credit to small businesses and consumers has contracted by trillions of dollars, an...

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CIT Was A 'Wake-Up Call' For Small Companies

wsj.com | VICTORIA E. KNIGHT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business, Credit Markets, Small Business Credit, Cit Group, Small Companies, Small Business Lending, Business News

he troubles at CIT Group Inc., a key lender to small businesses, underscore the importance of developing back-up plans for borrowing. CIT's financi...

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Elizabeth Warren: 3 Myths About The Consumer Financial Product Agency

baselinescenario.com | Elizabeth Warren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Baseline Scea, Financial Reform, Credit Markets, Video, Business News

Elizabeth Warren, the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel and a professor at Harvard, has been on a mini-media blitz of late. Yesterday, she re...

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Are Credit Markets Back to Normal?

Alan Schram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dollar, Money Market Funds, Wall Street, TED Spread, Bonds, Business News, Credit Crunch, Libor, Saving Money, Credit Markets, Tarp, Financial Crisis, Business News

Credit markets may not be completely healed, but they are in much better shape than they were three months ago.

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Junk-Bond Rally Premature as Record Defaults Loom, Analysts Say

bloomberg.com | Shannon D. Harrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Junk Bonds, Bond Markets, Markets, Credit Markets, FInancial Markets, Bonds, Junk Bond Rally, Wall Street, Business News

May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Junk-bond investors who have spurred the biggest rally on record are getting ahead of the recovery as the rate of company failure...

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My Late Night Visits from the Ghosts of Financial Outrages Past, Present, and Future

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Executive Pay, Goldman Sachs, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Edward Liddy, Executive Bonuses, Bonuses, Goldman Sachs Profits, Credit Markets, Goldman Profits, Pension Funds, Ben Bernanke, Business News

With my younger daughter away, I was looking forward to a quiet night in, curled up in bed with a few dozen pieces on the financial crisis I'd cut out from newspapers and magazines. But instead of reading a few and nodding off, I ended up staying up most of the night, getting more and more outraged with each article I read. These days, the business section is not for the faint of heart. READ MORE The Torture Moment The way we respond to the revelations about the Bush administration's use of torture will define the kind of country we are. It is a test of our courage and our convictions. So far, the media are not getting high marks. They can't seem to shake their addiction to looking at every issue through the archaic prism of right vs. left. READ MORE

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Credit Markets Tighter Despite Citigroup Rescue

AP | CARLO PIOVANO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street, Credit Markets, Credit Markets Tight, Financial Crisis, Economic Crisis, Citigroup Bailout, Citigroup, Business News

LONDON — Dollar lending rates between banks rose Monday despite the announcement of a U.S. plan to rescue troubled lender Citigroup Inc. The ra...

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The Anatomy of the Financial Crisis and Why We Must Get It Right

Mort Zuckerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Great Depression, Mort Zuckerman, Aig, Credit Squeeze, Lehman Brothers, Hedge Funds, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Crisis, Credit Crunch, Wall Street, Credit Markets, Recession, Mort Zuckerman Finance, Ben Bernanke, Business News

The danger is that politicians, who have little understanding of the financial world, may draw the wrong conclusions from Wall Street follies and make the wrong decisions as they try to revive our financial system.

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World Needs Global Financial and Securities Bodies

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

The world economy nearly failed and a global effort by governments and central banks has pulled the system back from the proverbial brink. That's why only a global solution going forward will save the day.

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Oops, New Bailout Isn't Working Either

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henry Paulson, Stock Market, Bailout, Bernanke, Wall Street Crisis, Credit Markets, Market Crash, Credit Crisis, Business News

The government's seizure of stakes in nine banks was designed to finally return the credit markets to some semblance of normal, so consumers and businesses can get access to money again. Unfortunately, we're still waiting.

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The World Is at Severe Risk of a Global Systemic Financial Meltdown and a Severe Global Depression

Nouriel Roubini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Bailout, Financial Meltdown, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Credit Crisis, Credit Markets, Housing Crisis, Business News

It will take a significant change in leadership of economic policy and very radical, coordinated policy actions among all advanced and emerging market economies to avoid this economic and financial disaster.

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Measuring The Crisis: Look Past Stocks

BusinessWeek | Ben Levisohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: TED Spreads, Debt, Commercial Paper, Credit, Credit Markets, Finance, Banks, Personal Finance, Credit Default Swaps, Wall Street, Measure Credit Markets, Measuring the Crisis, Business News

With the financial system bailout plan derailed by the House of Representatives on Sept. 29, the resulting plunge in equities made headlines around t...

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