26 Jan 2009
| by Stephen Foster
even after writing off 8bn against credit-crunched assets. The shares soared 24% as the market opened ...
been "hard-hit" by the credit crunch but affirm that it's profitable (which it clearly is unless ...
just be a sign of government support starting credit flowing again. Mind you, there's a fair degree ...
12 Jan 2009
| by Stephen Foster
ministers are embarking on phase two of "kill the credit crunch", starting with a so-called "summit" on jobs ...
packages off the banks. The bank bailout was supposed to solve the credit crunch leaving any further government spending with the task of shortening the recession. But the credit crunch is still the problem ...
05 Jan 2009
| by Stephen Foster
what he plans for the US economy, $300bn in tax cuts for consumers in the form of a $500 tax credit ...
on the purveyors of loans and credit cards than mortgages, and more incentives for businesses (Gordon Brown ...
this in the UK market for a while and that's one reason why credit, by recent standards anyway, will remain ...
05 Nov 2008
| by Stephen Foster
. The Republicans' Hank Paulson, former boss of Goldman Sachs, has striven manfully to bring the credit crunch ...
going back to the days of "Clintonomics", easy credit for everyone, which many blame for causing all ...
15 Oct 2008
| by Stephen Foster
want for 7.95p. Parker made the usual dark noises about the effect of the credit crunch but it ...
finishing on Newsnight, and a grand job he has done in explaining the credit crunch and the banking crisis ...
08 Oct 2008
| by Stephen Foster
short-term debt from banks and other companies in a bid to unfreeze the credit markets. These are loans ...
06 Oct 2008
| by Stephen Foster
us, is to direct money where it's needed -- essentially supplying credit to keep the wheels
01 Oct 2008
| by Stephen Foster
fortune in the credit crunch) and NM Rothschild (which hasn't) to advise him (not Alistair Darling ...
, in effect, relaxing the rules while the credit markets make valuation of such assets difficult or impossible ...
29 Sep 2008
| by Stephen Foster
of demutualised new shares have seen it all disappear. In the US the credit crunch has laid waste the venerable ...
01 Sep 2008
| by Stephen Foster
aren't as bad as all that ever since the credit crunch broke, has pulled its financing for XL's fuel ...