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...equities at this point. The skepticism about the Treasury's plan is enough so that it would be fair to guess that it has less than a 50/50 chance of succeeding. The toxic assets that may be bought from financial company balance sheets are only a part of the problem that banks face. Consumer, commercial real estate, and business loan defaults are almost certain to undermine money center results for the rest of this year...
...team needed to step back and reassess the situation,” Bock said. “We had a team meeting and problem-solved a little bit. We really just worked on our timing and we knew we needed a lot more hits and our bats really came alive [on Sunday...
...Systems and various academic institutions were in attendance. "Look, we can be agnostic about the politics of climate change," MOD science director Stein said before the meeting. "But there are operational reasons why we need these new technologies. And we need the brightest people helping us solve the problem." On that last point, at least, a die-hard environmentalist - or even Dwight D. Eisenhower - couldn't have said it better.- With reporting by Mark Thompson / Washington...
...loans themselves pose the greatest threat to banks' balance sheets, according to the Treasury department. Bill Gross, chief investment officer of the massive PIMCO bond firm who has been in conference with the government about participating in the plan, estimates the loans pose up to a $1 trillion problem for the banks, and the new program taps FDIC funds to get investors to buy those loans from the banks. Gross told CNBC today that he would participate in the plan...
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