US Fed says recovery on ‘firmer footing’
By James Politi, FT.com
Federal Reserve officials said the US economic recovery was on a “firmer footing”, upgrading their outlook on the back of a gradual improvement in the labour market but pledging to press on with monetary stimulus as planned.
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IEA warns of oil price shock on global economy
By Zaida Espana, Reuters
Sustained high oil prices will damage world economic recovery, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday, as it warned that OPEC's cushion of spare oil output to calm the market was at its lowest for four years.
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FDIC. Approves 'Too Big to Fail' Rules
DealBook
A top banking regulator approved a plan to seize and unwind big banks — a proposal that will help address those “too big to fail” firms whose collapse could imperil the financial system.
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Banking's Scourge on Charm Offensive
By VICTORIA MCGRANE And MAYA JACKSON RANDALL, WSJ.com
Elizabeth Warren has earned a reputation as the scourge of the financial industry. Banks used "tricks and traps" to carry out a "massive looting from middle-class families," the Harvard professor and consumer advocate has said. She slammed Wall Street chiefs after the financial crisis as the "people who drove the car over the cliff" and then "demanded a bailout."
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Fed holds rates, bond-buy plan
By Greg Robb, MarketWatch
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday said a run-up in commodity prices is unlikely to result in a sustained inflation increase as it left its key short-term interest rate unchanged at a record low and continued its plan to buy government bonds.The decision was expected by financial markets.
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Guy Debelle: The Australian bond market in 2011 and beyond
Speech by Mr Guy Debelle, Assistant Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, at the
KangaNews Australian DCM Summit, Sydney, 15 March 2011
Today I will discuss the current structure of the Australian bond market and talk about some
trends that might influence its evolution in the coming years. I will focus on the bank debt and
Kangaroo markets, given the theme of this conference. I will also address some of the issues
surrounding the implementation of the forthcoming Basel liquidity standard...
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EU Agrees on Economic Overhaul
BY MATTHEW DALTON, WSJ.com
European Union governments Tuesday agreed on a broad economic-policy overhaul, but European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said the changes didn't go far enough.
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UBS Says It Is Being Investigated Over Possible Manipulation of the Libor
By JACK EWING, DealBook
UBS said Tuesday that United States and Japanese regulators were investigating whether the Swiss bank tried to manipulate a key benchmark used to set interest rates around the world.
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Geithner: Japan won't need to sell U.S. Treasuries
By Ronald D. Orol, MarketWatch
In response to a question, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Tuesday that he does not believe that there is a risk Japan will have to resort to selling some of their U.S. Treasury holdings to raise cash in order to respond to the damage caused by an earthquake and tsunami. "I do not," Geithner said in response to a question by Sen. Charles Schumer at a Senate Banking Committee hearing. "Japan is a very rich country and has a high savings rate and has the capacity to deal not just with the humanitarian challenge but also the reconstruction challenge they face ahead."
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Regulators may be moving too fast for their own good on Dodd-Frank, GOP says
By Peter Schroeder, The Hill
The breakneck pace of rulemaking to implement the Dodd-Frank financial reform law is squeezing out public comments and could result in inconsistent regulations, House Republicans warned Wednesday.
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Japan feeds more money to banks as stocks slump
By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA, Associated Press/ Yahoo! News
Japan's central bank pumped billions more into the financial system Tuesday to quell fears that the country's banks could be overwhelmed by the impact of the massive earthquake and tsunami. Stocks slumped for a second day as a nuclear crisis escalated.
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Geithner backs Congress eyeing of covered bonds
Reuters
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday backed efforts from lawmakers on Capitol Hill to look into ways to expand the way homes are financed, including the creation of a covered bond market.
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Dim homebuilder outlook improves slightly
The Associated Press
Homebuilders' pessimistic outlook improved slightly this month, but it remains dim amid falling home prices and a weak pace of construction.
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Smart Phone Apps, Dating Fees Added To U.K. Inflation Measure
By Jason Douglas, WSJ.com
Smart phone “apps” and the fees Britons pay to find love online have been added to a basket of consumer goods used to calculate inflation in the U.K., the Office for National Statistics said Tuesday.
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‘Worst Case’ Nuclear Disaster in Japan Hangs on Unlikely Events
By Mehul Srivastava and Adi Narayan, Bloomberg
For Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s stricken nuclear reactors to release catastrophic amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere, a rare chain of events needs to happen.
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