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...Making climate change a priority at the leaders' summit was "a mistake," says John Edwards, chief economist in Australia for the HSBC financial group. Since the U.N. already has a framework for addressing the issue, he argues, APEC's impact will be negligible. Meanwhile, "they have missed the opportunity to do something serious on the issue of trade, by advancing the concept of an overarching free-trade agreement for the region...
Next are the mortgage lenders that belong to the same corporate family as a bank or a thrift. They're subject to oversight by either the Federal Reserve Board or the Office of Thrift Supervision but not to regular supervision. In this category are HSBC Finance and CitiFinancial, among others...
...greater today than it has been in the 10 years Labour have been in power," says Adrian Cooper, managing director of consultants Oxford Economics. So while economists are penciling in growth of 2.7% this year, expansion in 2008 could tumble to 2% says Karen Ward, U.K. economist at HSBC in London. "The new Chancellor," Ward adds, "is going to have to modify the opening line of his speech...
...million account holders, with 100,000 to 150,000 more signing up each month. "Before it was a curiosity, but now banks look at the outflow of accounts to ING Direct, and they're reacting," says Alenka Grealish, managing director of the banking group at consultancy Celent. Citibank, HSBC, Capital One, E-Trade and Emigrant Bank are among those offering no-fee, no-minimum-balance Web-only accounts with well-above-average interest rates. Many even offer rates higher than ING Direct's. Kuhlmann's response: "Knock yourself out." So far, new-account growth at ING Direct hasn't slowed...
...HSBC Holdings...