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Japan was hit hardest: Tokyo's Nikkei index fell nearly 10%, capping a week that saw Japanese shares plummet 25%, the worst weekly performance in the index's history. Investors fled after the credit squeeze claimed its first Japanese victim: Yamato Life Insurance Co., which filed for bankruptcy Friday after...
According to Liew, that's because the monetary-policy prescriptions offered by central banks have thus far done little to cure the constipated credit markets that are stalling the global economy. Under normal circumstances, interest-rate cuts by central banks would promote interbank lending. But Wednesday's coordinated rate cuts...
Banks may get some clarity soon. On Friday, finance ministers from the G-7 nations will meet in Washington, D.C., to discuss a coordinated response to the financial crisis. Adrian Mowat, chief Asia and emerging-market strategist for JPMorgan in Hong Kong, says that central bankers may follow Britain's...
But major American insurance companies are in little danger of going the way of the extinct banks, industry analysts and officials say. And policy holders are in no danger of being unable to insure their lives, homes, and property. "We don't have a liquidity crisis, we aren't experiencing...
Unlike the banks that have collapsed or merged under pressure, insurance companies are tightly regulated, mostly by the states. The companies are required to keep vast sums of cash and short term investments to be able to pay off policies, and they are required to pay into state funds to...