Credit Markets

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

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

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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Summers: Banks Are "Unintended Beneficiaries" Of The Bailout

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

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 10.02.2009 | Business

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's Failure A Wake-Up Call For Small Companies

wsj.com | VICTORIA E. KNIGHT | Posted 08.22.2009 | Business

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 On Consumer Financial Product Agency (VIDEO)

baselinescenario.com | Elizabeth Warren | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Baseline Scea, Financial Reform, Credit Markets, 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 06.22.2009 | Business

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 06.07.2009 | Business

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 05.21.2009 | Business

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 12.25.2008 | Business

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 11.22.2008 | Business

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 11.21.2008 | Business

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 11.15.2008 | Business

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 11.11.2008 | Business

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 10.31.2008 | Business

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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A plague on the Wall Street casinos

Diane Francis | Posted 10.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Gambling, Iraq War, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Federal Reserve, Mccain, Obama, Credit Crisis, Keith Olbermann, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Alan Greenspan, Credit Markets, Democrats, Eliot Spitzer, Republicans, Business News

America's biggest substance abuse problem is money. Like a crack addict in charge of the drug squad, Washington did little to nothing to control the a...

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Is This The Worst Crisis Ever?

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Economics, George Soros, Stock Market, Recession Fears, Recession, David Rosenberg, Alan Greenspan, Credit Crunch, Bear Market, Credit Markets, Stocks, Financial Crises, Business News

A bear market is only possible if there is a consensus that a financial crisis is significantly worse than ever before. And that is why we are currently in a bear market.

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Wall Street Banks Brace For More Multibillion-Dollar Losses

New York Times | Jenny Anderson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, U.S. Economy, Credit Crisis, High-Risk Loans, Corporate Buyouts, Wall Street, Auction-Rate Securities, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, American Economy, Wall Street Banks, Commercial Real Estate, Subprime Mortgages, Slowing Economy, Ubs, Credit Markets, Business News

Wall Street banks are bracing for another wave of multibillion-dollar losses as the crisis that began with subprime mortgages spreads through the cred...

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Goldman CFO: Fear Is Ruling The Markets

Bloomberg Via NYP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Credit Crunch, David Viniar, Goldman Sachs, Credit Markets, Recession Fears, Recession, Business News

US credit markets are trading as if the economy is in a recession because investors' "fear has overwhelmed greed," Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Fina...

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Fed Survey: Banks Tightening Credit

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, US Banks, Credit, Credit Markets, Fed Survey Banks Credit, Federal Reserve, Business News

Many U.S. banks have made it harder for creditworthy borrowers to get a mortgage, according to a Federal Reserve survey released Monday that underscor...

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Sinking Credit Markets May Wipe Out Investors' Dividends In 2008

AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Dividends, Credit Markets, Wall Street, Investors' Dividends, Sinking Credit Markets, Investors, Business News

With credit markets continuing their downward spiral, investors could see their dividends disappearing in 2008. Dividend cuts or suspensions will co...

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Consumer Spending Sees Biggest Gain In 2 Years

Washington Post | Neil Irwin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Disposable Income, Consumer Spending, US Economy, Credit Markets, Shopping, Personal Spending, Business News

The housing market is tanking, the credit markets are in crisis, and economists fear that a recession could be on the way -- but in November at least,...

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Central Bankers To Lend Billions In Credit Crisis

New York Times | VIKAS BAJAJ and FLOYD NORRIS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Rate Cut, Federal Reserve, Interate Rate Cut, European Central Bank, Credit Markets, Business News

A day after the Federal Reserve disappointed investors with a modest cut in interest rates, central banks in North America and Europe on Wednesday ann...

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