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...timing is terrible. In recent months, Toyota City - which boasts Detroit as a sister city - has shared some of the pain felt by its American counterpart. The region is still suffering from what locals call the Toyota shock. After the Lehman bankruptcy, when the worst of the financial crisis bit and the U.S. car market collapsed, Toyota reduced production and shed temporary workers, sending a damaging ripple through the region. The scars are clearly visible on the town's streets, riddled with closed shops and restaurants. Ryuichi Watanabe, an agent at the local branch of the Able property brokerage, says...
...recent rebound in profits of financial firms has restarted the Wall Street hiring machine. And former executives from the firms that stumbled in the financial crisis are turning out to be hot commodities. Merrill Lynch is not alone. The failures of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns have produced hunting grounds for other firms as well. But either because Merrill was a larger firm or because it didn't have as big a role in sparking the credit crisis as Lehman or Bear, it seems that no firm on Wall Street these days is without a former top executive from Merrill...
...Proprietary trading played a big role in manufacturing the CDOs and other instruments that were at the heart of the financial crisis," says Michael Madden, a managing director of the investment firm BlackEagle Partners and a former Lehman executive. "If firms weren't able to buy up the parts of these deals that wouldn't sell ... the game would have stopped a lot sooner...
...very hard to define which trades are being made on behalf of the firm and which are being made for clients. At issue as well is which firms would be subject to the Volcker rule. The skeptics say the Volcker rule wouldn't have stopped the collapse of Lehman or another investment bank, Bear Stearns, because they were not traditional banks. (Administration officials say the proposed rule would apply to any firm that owns a bank with federally insured deposits, which Lehman and Bear both did.) What's more, critics say, if you were to limit financial firms to just...
Indeed, it was these so-called principal investments that did in Lehman Brothers. In 2006, Lehman Brothers generated 58% of its revenue from proprietary transactions, up from 33% in 1998. In 1998, Lehman held just $28 billion in securities and other financial instruments. By 2007, at the beginning of the financial crisis, Lehman's holdings of these investments had increased more than tenfold, to $313 billion, up nearly $100 billion from the previous year alone...