Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria outlined plans to grab a big chunk of the Spanish banking market over the next three years as the nation’s ailing savings banks restructure.
The announcement came as Spain’s second-largest bank by assets reported a jump in fourth-quarter profit backed by robust growth in Latin America, which offset weakness in [...]
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BBVA Seeks Bigger Market Share
February 2nd, 2011 by Financial Writer
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more...Canadian bonds beat world
January 8th, 2011 by Financial Writer
Returns in Canada’s bond market exceeded the rest of the world in 2010, gaining the most in five years, and may outperform again this year amid record foreign purchases of the nation’s fixed-income securities.
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch Canada Broad Market Index, which tracks 1,150 federal, provincial and corporate bonds with a par value [...]
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Bankers’ Pay on the Line Again
December 28th, 2010 by Financial Writer
Limiting the compensation of banking executives is not the best way to curb their risk-taking, but it might be the option most readily available, an economist writes.
Buy vs. Rent: An Update
Should you buy a home or rent one? An updated list of the relationship between home prices and rents in 55 metropolitan areas.
The Holiday [...]
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Caliber Mortgage Finance – The Future Of The Residential Loans Or A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
December 14th, 2010 by Financial Writer
We’ve all been affected in one way or the other of the whole mortgage mess (or for many of us, we hit many, many possibilities). For the most part, I think it’s fair to say that most of the average person was affected by the collapse of mortgages in recent years has been nothing [...]
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Mortgage-Bond Slump ‘Won’t Be Fun’ for Housing: Credit Markets
December 13th, 2010 by Financial Writer
A slump in government-backed mortgage securities that’s sent yields to the highest level since May is threatening a recovery in the U.S. housing market, which had been bolstered by record-low borrowing costs.
Yields on Fannie Mae-guaranteed securities that most affect loan rates jumped as high as 4.21 percent today, an increase [...]
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China Rate Speculation Splits Analysts, Former PBOC Official
December 11th, 2010 by Financial Writer
China can’t raise interest rates because of the risk of attracting inflows of cash that would fuel inflation, said Wu Xiaoling, a former deputy governor of the central bank.
“The global low interest-rate environment prevents China’s central bank from raising interest rates,” Wu said in a speech at a hedge fund [...]
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Morgan Stanley Said to Sell CICC Stake to KKR, GIC
December 1st, 2010 by Financial Writer
Morgan Stanley is selling its 34.3 percent stake in China International Capital Corp. to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., TPG Capital, Singapore’s Great Eastern Holdings Ltd. and the island nation’s sovereign-wealth fund, four people with direct knowledge of the deal said.
Morgan Stanley plans to sell stakes of about 10 percent [...]
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Carney, Volcker see long haul to recovery
November 20th, 2010 by Financial Writer
The world economy faces a long, hard slog toward recovery and could slide into deflation and financial instability if leaders fail to deliver on promises of reform, top policy markers said on Friday.
At a conference in Calgary, White House special adviser Paul Volcker warned it would likely take years for the American economy to [...]
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U.S. recovery slowdown a ‘concern’: Carney
November 16th, 2010 by Financial Writer
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney said Friday the slowdown in the U.S. recovery is of “some concern” to the central bank and whatever unfolds will have a “significant” impact on this country’s economy.
In an interview with U.S. business network CNBC, he said the low level of U.S inflation — due to a debt overhang [...]
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US lender Wells Fargo profit jumps $3.2 bln
October 21st, 2009 by Financial Writer
Wells Fargo said Wednesday its third quarter earnings rose to a record 3.2 billion dollars, as the banking giant managed to profit from mortgages and consumer credit despite a weak economy.
The profit was up 98 percent from a year ago and amounted to 56 cents a share, far ahead of analyst expectations for earnings of [...]
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