Word: overnighting
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...response to the collapse of credit markets, but in comparison to Tokyo, Washington has acted at warp speed. As Japan watcher Richard Katz points out in the latest Foreign Affairs, it took the Bank of Japan nine years to bring the interest rate that banks pay on overnight money to 0%; the U.S. Fed managed that in 16 months following the beginning of the credit crisis in the summer of 2007. Japan - in desperate denial about the plight of proud companies - long delayed using public money to recapitalize banks. The U.S. starting doing so within a year of the crisis...
Kretschmer's motive remains unknown. Police have speculated that he may have heard about yesterday's Alabama massacre, news of which broke in Germany overnight. A misogynistic motive is also being investigated since the vast majority of the victims are female...
...smacked of hubris to many Germans and angered labor unions, who warned that the Schaeffler Group was biting off more than it could chew. Indeed, it soon came under immense pressure as the global financial crisis slammed headlong into the German car industry and orders dried up almost overnight. By the end of 2008, the once proud matriarch was seen in tears on German television, leading employees in a demonstration to prod the government to bail out her hapless clan and save thousands of jobs. But given the Schaeffler Group's "greed is good" image, it was no surprise that...
...Overnight futures trading suggested that Wall Street would open to less bearish trading than the sell-off that fueled its 4.24% loss Monday. But observers warned against looking to daily, weekly, or even monthly market activity for signs of where they or the stocks traded on them are headed. The reason? First off, if the selling frenzies that sent indices plunging by roughly 50% over the past year were initially driven by fears of possible collapse of global finance markets, that panic is now mostly being inspired by the world's dismal economic outlook. Because of that, many experts...
Residents in Bissau said on Monday that they had hidden inside their houses overnight, listening to gunshots resound across the city for hours, until they subsided at about 5 a.m. "Everyone is shocked," the former Minister of Finance Isifou Sanha said by phone from Bissau. "There must be a call to respect the constitution." Military leaders said on Guinea-Bissau radio stations yesterday that they would follow the constitution, by allowing the head of the parliament to run the country until new elections, which are supposed to be held within 60 days. Yet with billions of dollars of illegal drug...