Word: dominos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to The Wall Street Journal, "The bankruptcy will have far-reaching implications for the mall industry, including putting pressure on already declining property values of U.S. malls, and subsequently mall mortgages." Put another way, the commercial property business is about to be hit by a domino effect. Prices drop, defaults rise, and more properties have to be sold, so prices drop again. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...housing market, prices are dependent on the surrounding area. A firm can attempt to mitigate this problem by slicing up mortgages and repackaging them in complex financial instruments like collaterized debt obligations, but the risk persists. If enough houses drop in value, others will follow, and this domino effect is the current housing crisis...
Geithner argued that the power is needed to ensure that a floundering firm doesn't start a domino collapse among other companies doing business with it, thereby posing what regulators call "systemic risk" to the whole economy. "This is a prudent, carefully designed proposal to protect our financial system," Geithner said, arguing that if Treasury had had that power a year ago, it could have handled the collapses of Bear Stearns, Lehman and AIG very differently. Other Democrats said the power isn't so radical at all; the FDIC already takes over traditional banks on the verge of collapse - when...
...shrinking supply of affordable housing. Officials believe that the current home foreclosure crisis will be adding a new demographic to these statistics: middle-class blacks and Latinos. "It's families that were living pretty independently, doing pretty well. And, through just one event, it was, like, a domino effect - if one part of the puzzle breaks off, then everything breaks off," says Michael Levine, who coordinates social work programs for Hillsborough, Fla.'s 206,000-student school system. (See Cleveland's woes amid the current foreclosure crisis...
...region's banks could collapse, especially if Western banks yank credit lines to eastern subsidiaries. Such a move would be counterproductive. Western banks, particularly in places such as Austria, Belgium and Sweden, have huge exposure to emerging Europe's economies. If banks there crash, it could trigger a financial domino effect that ends up hurting everybody...