Word: bankes
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...losses would deal a blow to financial firms already struggling from rising delinquencies, and could force some troubled firms such as Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo to go back to the government for another round of financing. That could create another problem: There's just $135 billion left in the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program, so an increasingly cantankerous Congress could balk at being called on to pony up more funding for the program. (Read "Separating Toxic Assets From Legacy Assets...
...much of the public reaction to the Treasury Department's plan to dislodge risky loans and poorly performing bonds from banks has been positive. After the plan was announced two weeks ago, the stock market produced one of its biggest rallies in months. At its core, the plan promises to offer cheap loans to investors to purchase bank loans on which borrowers are behind or at risk of default. The plan would put needed cash into the hands of the banks. And on the surface it looks like it could produce sizeable returns for investors, as well as a smaller...
...compensate them for the risk that a mortgage will end up delinquent or in foreclosure. A price of $0.26 implies that investor are looking to get paid at least 40% to take on the risk of an existing mortgage loans these days. (Read "Why Berlin Says U.S. 'Bad Bank' Plan...
...economic-research institute, suggests that the banks sell the toxic assets to the federal government at no charge. In exchange, the government would then provide the banks with equity by taking stakes in banks that participate. The toxic assets would be placed in a state-owned bad bank and sold back to the banks at a later date when a market for such assets reemerges. "This ensures that the shareholders and not the taxpayers have to bear the initial costs of the failure," says Dorothea Schäfer, DIW head of research...
...issue of the expense of regulation is no issue at all. The real problems are much different. Does regulating an international bank make it more or less likely for the institution to lend to the people and industries that a government believes should have access to more capital? Since major financial firms operate in dozens of countries, there is no uniform set of answers to that question. The same holds true for leverage. Does a hedge fund create jobs and financial credit opportunities by helping to improve market liquidity though investments with complex insurance instruments like credit default swaps...