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...opportunity to diversify into fine instruments. Florian Leonhard, a London-based violin expert and dealer, is gathering more than $50 million for the Fine Violins Fund, aiming to buy as many as 50 old Italian instruments. Leonhard isn't alone in his confidence in the market. Emigrant Bank Fine Art Finance lends large sums of money using violins and cellos as collateral. And former concert violinist Staffan Borseman has established Stradivari Invest to advise big investors on the purchase of top instruments...
...March's $16.6 billion decline. Numbers from April show that people are now saving 5.7% of their disposable income, the highest rate in 14 years. Second, people are shirking their obligations. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, one in eight U.S. mortgages is now in either delinquency or default. Banks are figuring that nearly 10% of the money they're owed from credit cards is money they'll never see. "People were consuming more than their income, and that gave a big boost to the U.S. economy," says Kevin Lansing, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank...
...while foreclosures are certainly bad for banks, higher interest rates alone aren't. It is not the level of interest rates that matters to bank bottom lines, but the difference between short-term rates and long-term rates. Banks make money when they can borrow money on a short-term basis - think about your deposits - at little costs and lend it out on a longer-term basis - your mortgage - at a higher rate. That's what economists call the yield curve. And the steepness of the curve, which is the difference between short-term rates and long-term rates...
...long slide. At least, it had better be; if consumers start piling on debt again, we'll just have another, bigger credit crisis in a few years. But if they keep increasing their savings rate and reducing their debt loads, that's bad news for corporate profits, not just bank profits. Anybody who makes things that in recent years were bought on credit, from houses to washing machines to cars, is likely to be affected. So are stock prices. "Higher borrowing produces both higher profits and higher asset prices," writes London-based money manager George Cooper in his 2008 book...
...ZEALAND COUPLE find $6.4 million in bank account, flee country...