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...Swedish example offers one way to minimize such "moral hazard" and potentially recoup some of the funds taxpayers are being asked to spend to help get the credit markets rolling again. The idea, says Lundgren, is not to just give money, but "to get some ownership (in return), and eventually be able to get some revenue back." By taking a stake in its enfeebled banks, Sweden was able to minimize the taxpayers' burden in the long...
...index dropped 2.3% Monday after the French government nearly halved its 2009 growth estimates to 1% - at least one factor might limit the damage to a degree. In the course of the last 15 years, which saw a boom in France's real estate values, no lender would grant credit to an applicant with more than a 33% debt-to-income level. French banks have also always favored fixed-rate mortgages over more enticing but perilous variable-rate loans. The French real estate market is slowing, but the more prudent approach of French banks lessens the prospect of foreclosures, which...
Though Harvard’s endowment has posted strong returns amid the global financial crisis, the University’s finances may still be affected by the frozen credit markets. Harvard had issued more than $1.5 billion in variable-rate bonds as of the end of the 2007 fiscal year, according to the University’s annual financial report. These bonds have the potential to become costly for the University because of their volatility in the current turmoil. Interest rates on variable-rate bonds have soared as investors demand higher rates of return on these securities in the face...
...They got into a situation where their financial policy relied on being able to rollover certain types of short-term financing,” said Bergstresser, who served as the former head of European Credit Research at Barclays Global Investors. “When the perception arose in the markets that Bear was having trouble, the fear of Bear’s failure became a self-fulfilling prophecy as Bear could no longer rollover their short-term financing...
Rose added that the method of short-term financing became unsustainable as the credit crunch became overwhelming...