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...international bankers find this money eminently spendable. If Exxon earns $100 million on sales in Europe and deposits it in a U.S. bank's Lon don branch, the money becomes Eurodollars, and the bank can lend it to some other company to build a plant in Turin or Trenton. Because the dol lars are outside the U.S., the bank is free from Federal Reserve rules that require it to keep as much as 16.25% of its U.S. demand deposits frozen rather than loaned out. Since this free dom lowers the bank's costs, it can pay perhaps...
...crack down on such borrowing, the Fed this month began requiring that banks in the U.S., including U.S. branches of foreign banks, keep 8% of their new borrowings from the Eurodollar market in reserve; thus they can lend out only 92½ of each new Eurodollar. But U.S. corporations have already found a way to avoid the regulations. They can borrow Eurodollars from a foreign bank at about 1% lower rates...
Private bankers warn that attempts to regulate will fail. If Eurocurrency lending is regulated in London or Luxembourg, they say, it will only sail away to Singapore or Bahrain, where no controls are likely to be imposed. If the Federal Reserve restricts U.S. bank branches, borrowers will simply shift their Eurodollar business to foreign branches. Bankers also insist that these markets will be needed to lend the developing countries the $50 billion they will need over the next year to pay their oil and industrialization bills...
...outsiders. And, as Canizaro remarks, "for many years New Orleans was not pro-Italian." He put a $5,000 deposit on a downtown plot, then tried to borrow more to buy it. "There was enough income coming in from the property to service the debt if only somebody would lend me the money." The Establishment would not. Finally, he found a small bank to make the loan, and he started prospering. Canizaro...
George W. Siguler, assistant treasurer, said yesterday Harvard does not hold investments in banks that lend to the government of South Africa, in accordance with a policy laid down by the University in the spring...